I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
BEN KINGSLEYI think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That’s how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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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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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right note. But not alter the score of the music, just emphasize the note correctly.
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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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You don’t go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that’s benign conquest. It’s a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
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Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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I’m convinced that had I not changed my name, I don’t think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
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In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn’t care what the audience think of you. That’s not why you are there. You mustn’t care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.
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I didn’t go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.
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Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It’s harder.
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I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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