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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#day #downer #drama #envy #every

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#allowed #because #crew #filming #get

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#business #choices #either #first #get

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#changed #convinced #curve #eventually #had

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

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

#career #careful #carries #changes #information

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 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

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