Ben kingsley

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.

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!

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

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

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.

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

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

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

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

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