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

~Ben Kingsley

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There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.

~Ben Kingsley

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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.

~Ben Kingsley

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There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.

~Ben Kingsley

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

~Ben Kingsley

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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.

~Ben Kingsley

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I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

~Ben Kingsley

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But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

~Ben Kingsley

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There's so much crap talked about acting.

~Ben Kingsley

Topics: About Acting Crap Much Talked

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Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.

~Ben Kingsley

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: December 31st, 1943

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