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.
BEN KINGSLEYIf I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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If you are a libertine, if you’re not given to long-term faithful relationships, you tend to project your behavior onto everyone else. It’s like the person who knows they’re not trustworthy; they tend to mistrust everyone else.
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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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Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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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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Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.
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There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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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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John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
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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’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
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I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don’t have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.
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