164 Quotes by Ben Kingsley

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

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

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

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

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

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

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

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.

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.