Ben Kingsley
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"Sir Ben Kingsley" is an English actor. In a career spanning over 40 years, he has won an Academy Award/Oscar, Grammy Award/Grammy, BAFTA Award/BAFTA, two Golden Globe Award/Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Award/Screen Actors Guild awards. He is known for his starring role as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi/Mohandas Gandhi in the 1982 film Gandhi (film)/Gandhi, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He is also known for his performances in the films Schindler's List (1993), Sexy Beast (2000), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Shutter Island (film)/Shutter Island (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (film)/Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), Hugo (film)/Hugo (2011), and Iron Man 3 (2013). In 2013 he received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles 'Albert R. Broccoli Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment'.

Kingsley was Knight Bachelor/knighted in 2002. In 2010, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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I love creatures in their pure form.

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A cello's soul is the resonance that makes it unique: how it was made, when it was made, who's played it. Mine may be who my parents were, what I know about life, who I love and have loved. All that makes my bones resonate. If a director is fortunate enough to tap into that, it's an endless well of information.

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I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.

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I've met holocaust survivor victims, through other films, and I know what survivor guilt is like.

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There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.

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I don't think that making ourselves invulnerable to feeling any onslaught to our feelings will help us in life, ultimately. I think we only learn and grow by allowing ourselves to be really challenged by those feelings that do overwhelm us occasionally.

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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

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There are other non-English, Asian, Mexican... many, many directors I'd love to work with of different nationalities because a different national temperament and a different rhythm and a different way of looking at things is enlightening to work with.

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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.

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