Ben Kingsley Quotes

"A cello's soul is the resonance that makes it unique: how it was made, when it was made, who's played it. Mine may be who my parents were, what I know about life, who I love and have loved. All that makes my bones resonate. If a director is fortunate enough to tap into that, it's an endless well of information."
-Ben Kingsley

"I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood."
-Ben Kingsley

"I've met holocaust survivor victims, through other films, and I know what survivor guilt is like."
-Ben Kingsley

"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

"If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death."
-Ben Kingsley

"I don't think that making ourselves invulnerable to feeling any onslaught to our feelings will help us in life, ultimately. I think we only learn and grow by allowing ourselves to be really challenged by those feelings that do overwhelm us occasionally."
-Ben Kingsley

"There are other non-English, Asian, Mexican... many, many directors I'd love to work with of different nationalities because a different national temperament and a different rhythm and a different way of looking at things is enlightening to work with."
-Ben Kingsley

"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