In England, it’s now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It’s not even on my passport anymore. They’ve taken Mister away from me.
BEN KINGSLEYHopefully, 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.
More Ben Kingsley Quotes
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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’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
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I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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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 never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs – so I’m totally immune. I live in a bubble.
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I 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.
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My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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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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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 honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
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They’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
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I think I’m more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
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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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