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“I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Thinking #Silence #Cinema
“You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Profound #Forgiving #Lessons
“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.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Loyalty #Drama #Home
“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.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Hunters #Looks #Jaguars
“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.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Years #Theatre #Actors
“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.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Would Be #Actors #Layers
“In cinema, the leading player is the director.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Player #Directors #Cinema
“In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You mustn't care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Thinking #Order #Care
“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.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Children #Fantasy #Remember
“Shakespeare villains were extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard III... They're so richly layered that a British actor would find it almost impossible to create a two-dimensional villain, if he's explored in his early years or continues to explore his Shakespearean heritage. You can almost not judge them, if they're played really well.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Years #Two #Judging
“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Friendship #Girlfriend #Dating
“I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Night #Thinking #Fire
“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.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Ends #Rhythm
“Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Children #Empowering #Needs
“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.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Falling In Love #Men #Idiot
“I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Jobs #Reading #Interviews
“I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Waiting #Scripts #Honest
“I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in some terrible times. I'll get to wear a uniform.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Men #Play #Choices
“As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Thieves #Alive #Singers
“I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with her when I was starting out in my career. How to place my voice from a very relaxed position was all wonderfully reminiscent of going back to the basics. But I always like to do that with any role that I do, to dismantle it and put it all back together again.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Teacher #Drama #School
“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.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Choices #Scripts #Firsts
“I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Healing #Mean #Careers
“Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Love You #Love Is #Skype
“There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Skills #Feelings #Directors
“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

#Men #Thinking #Misunderstood
“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

#Children #Thinking #Trying
“Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Truth #Reality #Sometimes
“There's so much crap talked about acting.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Acting #Crap
“That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Ease #Flesh #Longing
“When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.”
-- Ben Kingsley

#Lazy #Acting #Film

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