Top 53 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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.

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

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.

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.

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

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've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.