#he

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#deeply #else #fortunate #gain #had

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#chips #fish #going #help #i

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#being #better #celebrity #charity #just

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

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#best #breed #cheerfulness #content #diligence

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#false #free #freedoms #likes #man

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#god #ready #thee #thy #tools