Ben Kingsley Quotes

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 think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

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.

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.

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

I have never felt bereft of anything.

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

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.

Hopefully, 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.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

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.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

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.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.