Ben Kingsley Quotes

Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the million ghosts -- with a wry smile on our faces, and a sense of accomplishment -- "That's for you!" [On shooting Schindler's List]

Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- with a wry smile on our faces, and a sense of accomplishment -- That's for you! [On shooting Schindler's List].

I love British cinema like a doctor loves his dying patient.

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

The close up in any great film is also telling the audience exactly where that character is. So you see it's very cinematographic stuff. Shakespeare lends itself so beautifully to film.

It's always very touching when you find a character on the screen who is fiercely defending your character.

I do despair sometimes. I was working with an actor recently who was so passionate to get into the role of a... borderline personality case, to say the least, that he would be shouting and screaming and pumping up and doing press-ups before the take and kicking the furniture -and hurting his hand once he banged it so hard... he forgot all his lines! Forgot everything, he'd exhausted the character off the set and arrived a wreck.

I always try to make whatever character I'm playing a completely whole human being, with integrity, morality-or the lack of. I try to give the audience an opportunity of looking at the screen and recognising something.

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.