Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley is an English actor. In a career spanning over 40 years, he has won an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA, two Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He is known for his starring role as Mohandas Gandhi in the 1982 film Gandhi, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He is also known for his performances in the films Schindler's List, Twelfth Night, Sexy Beast, Lucky Number Slevin, Shutter Island, Prince of Persia: The...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 December 1943
CitySnainton, England
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
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.
My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.
There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.
They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.