Home / Quotes / Quote by Ben Kingsley

Quote by Ben Kingsley

“Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.”

Quote by Ben Kingsley

Author

Ben Kingsley is a renowned British actor, born on December 31, 1943. He is known for his exceptional performances in film, theater, and television, and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 'Gandhi'. more

You May Also Like

“I've done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn't been the best career choice, but it's been a really great life choice.”

Done Choices Careers Independent Really Great Life Choices Careers Choices

Author:Nikki Reed

“I don't want any special powers. I'm powerless. I wouldn't want to see into the future, I wouldn't want to know what anyone was thinking, ever! And I don't want to relive my past.”

Thinking Knows Want Past Special Powerless My Past

Author:Nikki Reed

“I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.”

Ifs School Film Faces Guy Fighting House High School Nuclear Painter Film School Submarines Dropouts Electrician School Dropout High School Dropout

Author:David Ayer

“Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.”

Want Shows Actors Tricks Magician

Author:David Ayer

“I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.”

Knows Kind Psychologist Armchairs

Author:Tom Hardy

“[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.”

Ifs Want Five Week Minutes Conversation Five Minutes

Author:David Ayer

“You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different and you get kicked in the gut for it.”

Want Different Audience Directors Hollywood Critics Guts Again And Again

Author:David Ayer

“We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.”

Way Humans Grows Human Beings Our Lives Fit Flawed Psychosis Cauldrons

Author:Tom Hardy

“Actors are like kids, they need to play a little bit. And that's the nature of their job, they need to shake off some energy and then you as the director get them back on track. When you do loosen up the reins, you get some amazing things, but you have to wring out the performances for every last good drop.”

Needs Littles Play Kids Jobs Lasts Actors Energy Bits Directors Little Bit Performances Track Shakes Amazing Things Reins Back On Track

Author:David Ayer

“I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.”

Artist Parent Camps Degenerates Death Camps

Author:Art Spiegelman