#d

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#i #john #john lennon #lennon #liked

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#ease #everywhere #exists #flesh #honour

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#certain extent #class #extent #hierarchy #like

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#film #many #may #opens #reasons

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#every #justify #make #man #page

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

#film #film set #invigorating #much #place

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

#film #film set #guiding #i #light

There's so much crap talked about acting. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#acting #crap #much #talked

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

— Ben Kingsley

#compensates #drop #films #get #guard

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#enthusiastic #happy #make #need #really