I don’t want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.
BEN KINGSLEYYou cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
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I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don’t understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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As an actor there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.
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Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Equal partners aren’t always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
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I’m open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.
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As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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