Ben Kingsley Quotes

I dance. I don't really do anything else.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

I just want to act. I just want to do the work.

'Eastbound & Down' is giving you a rhythm. It's just a whole different vibe with improv. As an actor I just kind of exercise within my environment and adjust depending on where I'm at.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

Actors, after all, dream.

I love dancing!

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.

I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones.

I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

You have to be sharp when the camera's rolling. I want to be totally unselfconscious, like a child playing. I do as much prep as possible so I can lose myself for those seconds.

I'm all about dancing.

I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

There's a time and place for everything, and my focus is music. So that's what I prefer to spend most of my time doing, and not talk about making music.

On the piano, I cover all styles. I turn to it for inspiration in sport, and whenever I need my rest.

All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny.