All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
BEN KINGSLEYHamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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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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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It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
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Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn’t there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can’t.
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There is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
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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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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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When I choose a role it’s either because I recognise the man, or that I’m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don’t play him.
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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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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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What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it’s a science. It’s neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
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There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
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I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
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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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The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.
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