Ben Kingsley Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

  Ben Kingsley

  Healing, Night, Thinking

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

• I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

  Ben Kingsley

  Children, Thinking, Acting

• They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

  Ben Kingsley

  People, Acting, Actors

  Interview with Brian Linder, www.ign.com. July 28, 2004.

• You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.

  Ben Kingsley

  Reality, Thinking, Appreciate

• I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

  Ben Kingsley

  Acting, And Love, Cameras

• Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.

  Ben Kingsley

  Powerful, Real, Blood

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

  Ben Kingsley

  Lazy, Acting, Film

• The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So as an acting exercise, it's absolutely thrilling that the focus that we had to bring to each other echoed in life, echoed in art. And when you get that parallel, it's really thrilling and it's full of surprises, but it all has a logic.

  Ben Kingsley

  Art, Cutting, Exercise

• There's so much crap talked about acting.

  Ben Kingsley

  Acting, Crap

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2001.

• The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

  Ben Kingsley

  Acting, Cameras, Doe

• I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thinking, People, Acting

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2001.

• I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thinking, People, Style

• I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thinking, Acting, Might

• Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

  Ben Kingsley

  Magic, Acting

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