Quote: You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: 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. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: A cello's soul is the resonance that makes it unique: how it was made, when it was made, who's played it. Mine may be who my parents were, what I know about life, who I love and have loved. All that makes my bones resonate. If a director is fortunate enough to tap into that, it's an endless well of information. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: I don't think that making ourselves invulnerable to feeling any onslaught to our feelings will help us in life, ultimately. I think we only learn and grow by allowing ourselves to be really challenged by those feelings that do overwhelm us occasionally. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: There are other non-English, Asian, Mexican... many, many directors I'd love to work with of different nationalities because a different national temperament and a different rhythm and a different way of looking at things is enlightening to work with. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: I've met holocaust survivor victims, through other films, and I know what survivor guilt is like. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: I love creatures in their pure form. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: I have done three makeup tests and I'm very, very happy with them. I am completely unrecognizable. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: The Dostoevsky in Russia is very alive. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: If we hit the collective nerve of the audience on that night, that they would be standing up and rushing towards the stage to hug us. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: I found the absolute thrill of translating ancient poetic text into totally visceral, tangible and even relevant, immediate and urgent language... I was thrilled by Shakespeare. It surprised me, my profound delight in deciphering Shakespeare and making it completely flesh-and-blood. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: I may return to the stage, but not in the foreseeable future. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: 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 Kingsley]
Quote: I was very lazy in the sixth form at school, I wasn't motivated properly, I handled it very badly and I was not given a place at university to study medicine. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: I like to do one or two films a year. But I can't prepare for something until I know what it's going to be. So I find that doing some narration, or maybe a documentary, is like going back into the gym for a couple of days. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: It would frighten me if I were to learn somewhere along the line that all of those emotions had been suppressed throughout my entire life, that would be very scary, because nature would express them, somehow, in some form. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling. [Ben Kingsley]
Quote: 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 Kingsley]
Quote: When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting. [Ben Kingsley]