Ben Kingsley

“There's no such thing as a small part. There are only small actors.”

“If I'm not in a role, I'm a dad, a grandpa, a husband, a partner, a neighbor, a friend. The role is the costume I put on.”

“I'm not a film star; I am an actor. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.”

“Somewhere in my DNA, there is a fire, a storyteller.”

“I'm not a method actor. I'm a classical actor. It's a different approach to the work.”

“The building of a character is a building of a person.”

“I think the great challenge for an actor is to be able to be in the moment.”

“I think that when you are in the limelight, it is part of your obligation to be a good role model.”

“The secret of acting is to be a thief. You steal from life, from people, from books, from paintings.”

“In order to be a storyteller, you have to be a good listener.”

“The camera is the slave to the actor.”

“I don't get offered many comedies.”

“I always think the toughest story to tell is the one that is the most simple and the most universal.”

“You can't ultimately dodge the responsibility of being a social agent.”

“Actors are observers. They're trying to have a perspective on life, and then they use their bodies and their voices to communicate what they've observed.”