Ben Kingsley

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

#behaviour #camera #damn #does #filming

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#certain extent #class #extent #hierarchy #like

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

— Ben Kingsley

#film #many #may #opens #reasons

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

— Ben Kingsley

#every #justify #make #man #page

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

— Ben Kingsley

#assurance #been #never #regards #work

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. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#film #film set #invigorating #much #place

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. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#film #film set #guiding #i #light

There's so much crap talked about acting. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#acting #crap #much #talked

Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#strongly #well #wonderful #work

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

#another #asked #boat #boats #both