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

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

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

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 Quote

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

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

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

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

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.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

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.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

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 Quote

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

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

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

In cinema, the leading player is the director.
- 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

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
- 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

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 Quote

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

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

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
- 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

There's so much crap talked about acting.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

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

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.
- Ben Kingsley Quote

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