Zitat des Tages von Ben Kingsley:
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
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.
There's so much crap talked about acting.
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
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.
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 filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.
But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
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.
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
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.
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
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.
If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
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.
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
I have never felt bereft of anything.
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
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!