Top 100 Kingsley Quotes
#1. There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.
Ben Kingsley
#2. Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
Charles Kingsley
#3. I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.
Charles Kingsley
#4. I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.
Kingsley Amis
#6. Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.
Charles Kingsley
#7. Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.
Charles Kingsley
#8. I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on.
"That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it.
Raymond Chandler
#9. It was a bright, sunny morning in June when Bill first visited Jacob Kingsley. He flew in through the open window, buzzed about the room awhile, and then planted his six tiny legs along the wall opposite the bed.
Nate Gutman
#10. I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.
Ben Kingsley
#11. They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.
Ben Kingsley
#12. I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.
Kingsley Martin
#13. There a dozen ways to skin a cat. All of them are illegal.
Ness Kingsley
#14. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. - SAMUEL JOHNSON
Kingsley Amis
#15. The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
Charles Kingsley
#16. Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you - free. - Kingsley Amis
Christopher Hitchens
#17. I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.
Kingsley Amis
#18. It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
Kingsley Amis
#19. Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.
Charles Kingsley
#20. I'm currently imagining a few creative ways of causing you extraordinary amounts of pain."
Kingsley raised his chin. Mere inches separated their faces.
"Stop flirting. You know we don't have time for that.
Tiffany Reisz
#22. Take some advice," Kingsley said, "and keep your eyes on me. If you stare at him too long, you might learn something about what it means to be a man of God.
Tiffany Reisz
#23. The manufacturing of consent*2 is now endemic to modern technological societies.
Kingsley L. Dennis
#24. Oh, don't hurt me!" cried Tom. "I only want to look at you; you are so handsome.
Charles Kingsley
#25. The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times.
Kingsley Amis
#26. Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
Kingsley Amis
#27. When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.
Kingsley Amis
#28. I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.
Ben Kingsley
#30. I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in some terrible times. I'll get to wear a uniform.
Ben Kingsley
#31. Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.
Charles Kingsley
#32. How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?
Charles Kingsley
#34. No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
Kingsley Amis
#35. Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.
Kingsley Amis
#36. We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
Charles Kingsley
#37. It was a perfect title, in that it crystallized the article's niggling mindlessness, its funeral parade of yawn-enforcing facts, the pseudo-light it threw upon non-problems.
Kingsley Amis
#38. Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European ...
Kingsley Amis
#39. 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.
Ben Kingsley
#40. She'll be in a better mood once we're done with her.
Tiffany Reisz
#41. His wild white hair and beard projected from all angles of his face, making him look like a dandelion gone to seed.
Kaza Kingsley
#42. Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
Kingsley Amis
#43. 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.
Ben Kingsley
#44. The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?
Kingsley Amis
#45. He's a bastard, that blond monster." "You know you love him." "Entirely against my will," Kingsley said, "and with all my heart.
Tiffany Reisz
#46. One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
Ben Kingsley
#47. It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
Kingsley Amis
#48. If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.
Charles Kingsley
#49. Her hotline rang.
"Mistress Nora's House of Ill Repute. How may I direct your cock?"
"You aren't cute," Kingsley said.
"I beg to differ. I'm fucking precious.
Tiffany Reisz
#51. I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in cling film and put that on.
Cate Blanchett
#52. The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
Ben Kingsley
#53. Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.
Ben Kingsley
#54. Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.
Melissa De La Cruz
#55. A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.
Kingsley Amis
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
Ben Kingsley
#59. Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
Kingsley Amis
#60. I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
Ben Kingsley
#61. I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.
Charles Kingsley
#62. He pointed the scepter around the library and had an instant input of all of the books that were there into his brain, as if he had read them all at once.
Kaza Kingsley
#63. I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.
Mary Kingsley
#64. She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do.
Kingsley ... I can't do this. I'm coming with you.
Melissa De La Cruz
#65. For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
Charles Kingsley
#66. If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.
Ben Kingsley
#67. If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little longer we find that
it teaches us the way to attain what we long for.
Peter Kingsley
#68. I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.
Kingsley Amis
#69. For a man as keen as he on getting into bed with women, keeping hidden the full enormity of his fatness was a chronic problem. Its most acute form naturally came up when someone new had to be hustled or cajoled past the point of no return. That point tended to get later and later as his belly waxed.
Kingsley Amis
#70. 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
#71. Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.
Kingsley Wood
#72. Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
Kingsley Amis
#73. 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.
Ben Kingsley
#74. For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
Charles Kingsley
#75. I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.
Ben Kingsley
#76. I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.
Kingsley Amis
#77. You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation.
Kingsley Amis
#78. The best way to walk into a nightmare is with a smile.
Kaza Kingsley
#79. The Monarchy ... is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment
Kingsley Martin
#80. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis
#81. I need your help," Kingsley said. "You're fucking my wife, and you come to ask for a favor. I almost admire that.
Tiffany Reisz
#82. The real trouble with liars ... was that there could never be any guarantee against their occasionally telling the truth.
Kingsley Amis
#84. I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.
Ben Kingsley
#85. Ah, arguing with Ava Kingsley. Just like old times." Only back in college they'd argued in print - weekly.
Melissa Tagg
#86. French Vanilla," Kingsley said. "What's that?" "Vanilla with a strong libido and a taste for anal." "I can see that.
Tiffany Reisz
#87. But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.
Ben Kingsley
#88. The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.
Lucy Punch
#89. Stop!" said the Irishwoman. "I have one more word for you both; for you will both see me again before all is over. Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be; and those that wish to be foul, foul they will be. Remember.
Charles Kingsley
#90. You grow up. You move on. You find someone new. And for God's sake, you don't ask the first woman who lets you fuck her to marry you.
Tiffany Reisz
#91. It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)
Christopher Hitchens
#92. Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.
Kingsley Amis
#93. The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.
Ben Kingsley
#94. I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
Ben Kingsley
#95. You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.
Ben Kingsley
#96. 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.
Ben Kingsley
#98. Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.
Ben Kingsley
#99. Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.
Charles Kingsley
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