In cinema, the leading player is the director.
BEN KINGSLEYIn cinema, the leading player is the director.
BEN KINGSLEYMillions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
BEN KINGSLEYI try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEYThe biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
BEN KINGSLEYI’ve met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.
BEN KINGSLEYI have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
BEN KINGSLEYThere is always something about the villains that I’m able to play, quote unquote, that isn’t villainous.
BEN KINGSLEYThere’s so much crap talked about acting.
BEN KINGSLEYWhat 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.
BEN KINGSLEYI’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.
BEN KINGSLEYIt is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
BEN KINGSLEYWith narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
BEN KINGSLEYI don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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.
BEN KINGSLEYI 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 honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I’m waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
BEN KINGSLEY