As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving. Ben Kingsley More Quotes by Ben Kingsley More Quotes From Ben Kingsley I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies. Ben Kingsley destiny stories thinking I have never felt bereft of anything. Ben Kingsley bereft felt 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. Ben Kingsley character fall thinking But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible. Ben Kingsley comedy But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh. Ben Kingsley crew laughing Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence. Ben Kingsley astonishing 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. Ben Kingsley actors responsibility wonderful It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity. Ben Kingsley charity voice actors That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. Ben Kingsley longing flesh ease I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job. Ben Kingsley approach jobs thinking 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. Ben Kingsley embrace arms villain 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. Ben Kingsley boat hours miles The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience. Ben Kingsley events choices numbers Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting. Ben Kingsley powerful real blood 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. Ben Kingsley style people thinking If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling. Ben Kingsley choices wish long I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood. Ben Kingsley misunderstood men thinking John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London. Ben Kingsley london writing song The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! Ben Kingsley cameras acting doe It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years. Ben Kingsley hollywood two years
