Ben Kingsley Quotes - Page 3

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

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

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

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.

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.

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

You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.

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

I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

What 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.

Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

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 didn't go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.

It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years.

There's so much crap talked about acting.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

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 have never felt bereft of anything.

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

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