Ben kingsley

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

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

There's so much crap talked about acting.

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

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

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.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.