Top 53 Quotes by Ben Kingsley

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 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.

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

There's so much crap talked about acting.

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

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

There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.

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.

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

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