Ben Kingsley Quotes

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

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

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

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him. When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting. - Ben Kingsley

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

Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work. - Ben Kingsley

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors. - Ben Kingsley

Unfortunately I went to a hotel in Krakow, and unfortunately, one night, there was a brawl in the bar because a horrible anti-Semitic remark was made to one of my fellow Israeli actors, one of my fellow actors who was an Israeli, sorry, and we were all extremely upset. I reacted rather violently, I'm afraid. - Ben Kingsley

To offer to our tribe, as storytellers, narratives which are absent of a dark side is a terrible disservice. I'm just fighting for the right for a film to be stirring and brilliant and illuminating. - Ben Kingsley

To be moved is beautiful. We don't go to the cinema to leave in exactly the same state that we were in when we walked in. We buy our ticket, we pay our seven or eight dollars to be moved. That's honestly what we pay for. - Ben Kingsley

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