Top 53 Quotes by Ben Kingsley

I have never felt bereft of anything.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

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

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.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

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.

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.

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