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.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.

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

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.

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.

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.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

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