Ben Kingsley Quotes

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.

You want to know what I want? I’ll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

If it’s a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it’s usually a reaction to something else.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don’t understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

I hope I’m able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I’m reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That’s what I’d like to do.