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Ben Kingsley Biography

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor with a career spanning over 50 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 has appeared in Schindler's List (1993), Twelfth Night (1996), Sexy Beast (2000), House of Sand and Fog (2003), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Shutter Island (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), Hugo (2011), Iron Man 3 (2013), The Boxtrolls (2014), and The Jungle Book (2016).

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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

Falling In Love, Men, Idiot, Love, Process

I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.

Actors, Cowardice, Frightened, Stars, Yellow

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!

Acting, Behaviour, Cameras, Doe, Like

I've met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.

Back, Careers, Extraordinary, Memories, Numbers, People

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

Bonnet, Hunter, Hunters, Jaguars, Leaping, Looks

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

Acting, Actors, People, Strange

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

Invention, People, Style, Styles, Thinking, Understand

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

Magic, Acting, Movie

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

Actor, Actors, Screen, Theatre, Work, Years

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

Alive, Fallen, Singers, Thieves, Wonder

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

Age, Aging, Life, Men, Old

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

Pregnancy, Together, May, Sorts, Film, Opens

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

Comedy, Humanly, Love, Possible

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.

Ends, Know, Knows, Nobody, Rhythm

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

Behaviour, Character, Characters, Human, Roots, True

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

Admire, Character, Play, Trying

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

Acting, And Love, Cameras, Love, Loves

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

Acting, Actors, Children, Think, Thinking, Touch

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.

Awards, Learn, Letting Go, Moment, Take, Wife

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.

Applause, Cultures, Landscape, Other Cultures, Play, Way

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