Top 53 Quotes by Ben Kingsley

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.

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

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.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

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

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

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

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

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

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.