Ben Kingsley quote: "I wasn't particularly strong in the dramatic society, the drama group. I left Manchester Grammar School with abysmal A-level results. I then had a year's hiatus where I didn't know what to do at all."

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor...
BEN KINGSLEY

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY

I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri...
BEN KINGSLEY

Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w...
BEN KINGSLEY

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
BEN KINGSLEY

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That i...
BEN KINGSLEY

I have never felt bereft of anything.
BEN KINGSLEY

In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anym...
BEN KINGSLEY

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day...
BEN KINGSLEY

You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected yo...
BEN KINGSLEY

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories ...
BEN KINGSLEY

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.
BEN KINGSLEY

There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in...
BEN KINGSLEY

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this wa...
BEN KINGSLEY

I found the absolute thrill of translating ancient poetic text into totally visceral, tangible and e...
BEN KINGSLEY

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

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tr...
BEN KINGSLEY

I have done three makeup tests and I'm very, very happy with them. I am completely unrecognizable.
BEN KINGSLEY

The yellow stars I have worn on three coats in Europe prevented that from happening,
BEN KINGSLEY

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to ...
BEN KINGSLEY

The special effect are apparently quite complicated and quite expensive, which meant further delays,...
BEN KINGSLEY

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, whi...
BEN KINGSLEY

I have no misconceptions about my dentist because when I go to my dentist I see what he does... Nobo...
BEN KINGSLEY

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do wit...
BEN KINGSLEY

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day suc...
BEN KINGSLEY

I've met holocaust survivor victims, through other films, and I know what survivor guilt is like.
BEN KINGSLEY

Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous...
BEN KINGSLEY

A cello's soul is the resonance that makes it unique: how it was made, when it was made, who's playe...
BEN KINGSLEY

That was never a concern for me,
BEN KINGSLEY

Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w...
BEN KINGSLEY

I never listened to them, ... I grow from the inside out. I said to Roman, 'I met this man, I met hi...
BEN KINGSLEY

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody e...
BEN KINGSLEY

Once I start painting, once I start acting and working, it's not a holiday. It's not a respite, but ...
BEN KINGSLEY

Being a leading man on a film set under the direction of somebody like Dickie Attenborough is very e...
BEN KINGSLEY

Sometimes, you know, one is distracted by a bad print or a bad sound quality.
BEN KINGSLEY

Of course, silence in the theater, when you know that that silence is being sustained before your ey...
BEN KINGSLEY

It doesn't get any easier. I still get very nervous and excited, but I'm hoping... what I'm trying t...
BEN KINGSLEY

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
BEN KINGSLEY

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on st...
BEN KINGSLEY

I didn't go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks lat...
BEN KINGSLEY

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

I like to do one or two films a year. But I can't prepare for something until I know what it's going...
BEN KINGSLEY

If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices wit...
BEN KINGSLEY

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting...
BEN KINGSLEY

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the charac...
BEN KINGSLEY

I love creatures in their pure form.
BEN KINGSLEY

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just ...
BEN KINGSLEY

If we hit the collective nerve of the audience on that night, that they would be standing up and rus...
BEN KINGSLEY

I may return to the stage, but not in the foreseeable future.
BEN KINGSLEY

I think we have to destroy the stereotypes and replace them with archetypes.
BEN KINGSLEY

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling ...
BEN KINGSLEY

There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to b...
BEN KINGSLEY

I don't think that making ourselves invulnerable to feeling any onslaught to our feelings will help ...
BEN KINGSLEY

There are other non-English, Asian, Mexican... many, many directors I'd love to work with of differe...
BEN KINGSLEY

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can...
BEN KINGSLEY

To offer to our tribe, as storytellers, narratives which are absent of a dark side is a terrible dis...
BEN KINGSLEY

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the ch...
BEN KINGSLEY

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
BEN KINGSLEY

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that ever...
BEN KINGSLEY

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same ...
BEN KINGSLEY

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it...
BEN KINGSLEY

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't unde...
BEN KINGSLEY

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox...
BEN KINGSLEY

There's so much crap talked about acting.
BEN KINGSLEY

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
BEN KINGSLEY

In cinema, the leading player is the director.
BEN KINGSLEY

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn wel...
BEN KINGSLEY

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which r...
KINGSLEY AMIS

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
KINGSLEY AMIS

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve dra...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep, And good-...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: From ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to ma...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfu...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more o...
KINGSLEY AMIS

There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wo...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went ab...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, dil...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
KINGSLEY AMIS

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be le...
KINGSLEY AMIS

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded with...
KINGSLEY AMIS

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
KINGSLEY AMIS

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears i...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to m...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understan...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry i...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

"O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
KINGSLEY AMIS

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
KINGSLEY AMIS

No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Ma...
KINGSLEY AMIS

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven...
KINGSLEY AMIS

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
KINGSLEY AMIS

I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so ca...
KINGSLEY AMIS

A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as...
KINGSLEY AMIS

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¢tÃƒÂ�...
KINGSLEY AMIS

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
KINGSLEY AMIS

Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with vio...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterl...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

There is a great deal of human nature in man.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thoug...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
KINGSLEY AMIS

When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad, CHARLES KINGSLEY

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to ma...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
KINGSLEY AMIS

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to ma...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen, What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to ma...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

If their (the Utility Department's) case is compelling enough to warrant a review, then they'll be a...
CHRIS KINGSLEY

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is f...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence
KINGSLEY AMIS

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
KINGSLEY AMIS

Have thy tools ready, God will find thee work
CHARLES KINGSLEY

More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

The only way to regenerate the world is to do the thing which lies nearest us, and not hunt after gr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

There are two freedoms--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

As long as we can dedicate the money to specific items like the roads or pavement management, I thin...
CHRIS KINGSLEY

We almost always undervalue the significance of the Victory at the Cross.But as our understanding is...
KINGSLEY ONWUCHEKWA

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keep...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
KINGSLEY AMIS

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic
KINGSLEY AMIS

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be...
KINGSLEY AMIS

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a ...
KINGSLEY AMIS

Women don't seem to think it's good enough; They write about it
KINGSLEY AMIS

I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so ca...
KINGSLEY AMIS

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for...
KINGSLEY AMIS

Do noble things, not dream them all day long
CHARLES KINGSLEY

To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very g...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned ins...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is fre...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burs...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

I once had a sweet little doll, dears, / The prettiest doll in the world.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

When all the world is young, lad, / And all the trees are green; / And every goose a swan, lad / And...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

For men must work and women must weep./ And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

He thought to himself now that if ever he went into the brewing business his posters would have writ...
KINGSLEY AMIS

He put a fresh sheet in and, after spending a few moments wishing he were doing something quite diff...
KINGSLEY AMIS

Our work shows that even major morphological changes are controlled by relatively simple mechanisms.
DAVID KINGSLEY

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day
CHARLES KINGSLEY

O Mary, go and call the cattle home / And call the cattle home, / And call the cattle home,/ Across ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from huma...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Be good...and let who can be clever; Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Lif...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

That is obviously false. Sticklebacks with major changes in skeletal armor and fin structures are th...
DAVID KINGSLEY

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in
KINGSLEY AMIS

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pâté than any other.
KINGSLEY AMIS

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Do the work that's nearest, / Though it's dull at whiles, / Helping, when we meet them,/ Lame dogs o...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
KINGSLEY AMIS

A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesse...
KINGSLEY GEORGE

There was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable.
KINGSLEY AMIS

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself i...
KINGSLEY AMIS

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in com...
KINGSLEY AMIS

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
KINGSLEY AMIS

I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You ...
KINGSLEY AMIS

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing...
KINGSLEY AMIS

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present�...
KAZA KINGSLEY

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an ...
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Toads are to dragons what carrots are to unicorns.
NESS KINGSLEY

I think we wanted to say the same thing that all of these other people are saying that this boat was...
LINDA KINGSLEY

When we took control of the terminal ... there were things that were left behind in various formats,...
LINDA KINGSLEY

It was difficult the way the news was conveyed, and it was difficult to see how many department head...
LINDA KINGSLEY

There were a lot of corporate entities. There were a lot of business dealings. There were records th...
LINDA KINGSLEY

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
CHARLES KINGSLEY

It was the hardest ticket in town, ... Celebrities were crying: 'Where's my 'box?' 'Where's my 'box?...
PAT KINGSLEY

For the time being, we are just not opening fan mail. Just to be careful, we are putting it off for ...
PAT KINGSLEY

I wasn't particularly strong in the dramatic society, the drama group. I left Manchester Grammar School with abysmal A-level results. I then had a year's hiatus where I didn't know what to do at all.

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I wasn't particularly strong in the dramatic society, the drama group. I left Manchester Grammar School with abysmal A-level results. I then had a year's hiatus where I didn't know what to do at all.

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