We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.


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BEN KINGSLEY
I may return to the stage, but not in the foreseeable future.
BEN KINGSLEY
That is obviously false. Sticklebacks with major changes in skeletal armor and fin structures are th...
DAVID 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
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
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
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
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself i...
KINGSLEY AMIS
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the ch...
BEN 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
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
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
No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present�...
KAZA 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
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