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Harrison Ford We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less... Harrison Ford You know you're getting old when all the names in your bla... Harvey Fierstein Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be ... Ben Kingsley Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the... Ben Kingsley I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... I... Ben Kingsley But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowe... Ben Kingsley I might be asked to make an emotional expression which is ... Ben Kingsley I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an i... Ben Kingsley There's so much crap talked about acting.... Ben Kingsley Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes le... Ben Kingsley I love creatures in their pure form.... Ben Kingsley That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terr... Ben Kingsley I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RS... Ben Kingsley As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder i... Ben Kingsley As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to... Ben Kingsley There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There'... Ben Kingsley I don't honestly think people know what acting is.... Ben Kingsley If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I... Ben Kingsley I'm holding a mirror to the audience and telling them ther... Ben Kingsley I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot a... Ben Kingsley I think that all of us either lose touch with the child in... Ben Kingsley But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.... Ben Kingsley I have done three makeup tests and I'm very, very happy wi... Ben Kingsley The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a ... Ben Kingsley Moses had a very bad stammer. Aaron often had to speak for... Ben Kingsley I've met holocaust survivor victims, through other films, ... Ben Kingsley The camera does not like acting. The camera is only intere... Ben Kingsley When you drop your guard in films, the acting process comp... Ben Kingsley With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voi... Ben Kingsley It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a vo... Ben Kingsley When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the m... Ben Kingsley In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared.... Ben Kingsley Quite often when I'm cast in a movie, I'm asked to bring w... Ben Kingsley I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, a... Ben Kingsley If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does be... Ben Kingsley If we hit the collective nerve of the audience on that nig... Ben Kingsley I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary ga... Ben Kingsley I have never felt bereft of anything.... Ben Kingsley Everything that's made me what I am today is part of that ... Ben Kingsley I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted... Ben Kingsley I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great ... Ben Kingsley I may return to the stage, but not in the foreseeable futu... Ben Kingsley I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and c... Ben Kingsley The Dostoevsky in Russia is very alive.... Ben Kingsley If people are generous with their information, then the ac... Ben Kingsley I just try to do the things that I respond to, that just g... Ben Kingsley I do have a massive curiosity.... Ben Kingsley The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and... Ben Kingsley I think that the stamina, the marathon stamina that you re... Ben Kingsley There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I... Ben Kingsley Sometimes, you know, one is distracted by a bad print or a... Ben Kingsley I knew India not at all. I mean, I had never been before i... Ben Kingsley It's always very touching when you find a character on the... Ben Kingsley I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't thin... Ben Kingsley I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I ... Ben Kingsley I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope ... Ben Kingsley It doesn't get any easier. I still get very nervous and ex... Ben Kingsley All the great writers root their characters in true human ... Ben Kingsley I'm not very good at analysing past strategies and choices... Ben Kingsley The many many imponderables come together when a film open... Ben Kingsley I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.... Ben Kingsley I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense,... Ben Kingsley I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an ... Ben Kingsley I think a great director is able to conclude things with g... Ben Kingsley I think one of my main moments of inspiration was when I w... Ben Kingsley I was very lazy in the sixth form at school, I wasn't moti... Ben Kingsley Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.... Ben Kingsley In cinema, the leading player is the director.... Ben Kingsley Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choic... Ben Kingsley Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if ... Ben Kingsley There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordina... Ben Kingsley I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for th... Ben Kingsley I always try to find something I admire about every charac... Ben Kingsley I think that various styles and methods and approaches are... Ben Kingsley Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my wor... Ben Kingsley When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like... Ben Kingsley I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a s... Ben Kingsley I have no misconceptions about my dentist because when I g... Ben Kingsley Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magi... Ben Kingsley John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to writ... Ben Kingsley One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is ... Carl Reiner A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary ... Cary Grant My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the mor... Christopher Reeve So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they ... Clint Eastwood This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I coul... David Friedman The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any pro... Dean Martin If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.... Dennis Quaid Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's... Hume Cronyn The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes mo... Irwin Corey Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take i... Jack Lemmon If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up ... John Barrymore A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.... John Cleese If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living ask... John Cleese I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being blan... John Spencer The research rat of the future allows experimentation with... Kevin Spacey Success is like death. The more successful you become, the... Martin Mull The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your... Maurice Chevalier A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth.... Orson Welles A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in... Oskar Werner I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.... Paul Newman The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgr... Peter Ustinov Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which... Peter Ustinov Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.... Richard Burton The more I study religions the more I am convinced that ma... Robert Redford I think the environment should be put in the category of o... Sid Caesar Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and yo... Tom Hanks From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the... Will Rogers I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report... Will Rogers Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can... Will Rogers An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody el... Will Rogers It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that co... Will Rogers If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectabl... Will Rogers There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get ... Will Rogers I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a D... Will Rogers The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a l... Will Rogers I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off every... Will Rogers Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's ... Will Rogers Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had o... Will Rogers This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in... Will Rogers There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open ... Will Rogers You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war t... Will Rogers Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stoc... Will Rogers The movies are the only business where you can go out fron...

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