"I find it easy to relax. I think confidence has an awful lot to do with it, and a certain degree of accomplishment. I don't mean that in a pompous sense. If I were struggling as a craftsman, I would tend to walk around with the tools of the trade in my hand. Now that I feel more wedded to my craft, I can put my tools down."
"I didn't say I wanted to be an actor until I was eighteen, but when I was a child, I saw a film called Never Take No for an Answer. It starred an Italian orphan who looked like me. Or, to put it more modestly, I looked like him. When we left the cinema, the theater manager lifted me above the crowd, saying: It's little Peppino. I felt quite exhilarated being held, because I really believed I was that little boy on the screen,"
"My dad was very pragmatic and said, Change your name. [Kingsley was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji.] If it comes from a parent, it has weight, so I did. It's as though I'm a painter and I sign my canvases Ben Kingsley, because that's what they are. I don't think it would have been remotely possible for me to enjoy the company of Richard Attenborough on that extraordinary journey of Gandhihad I not had twelve years with the Royal Shakespeare Company."
Ben Kingsley has a five-decade career across stage, film, and television and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Gandhi (1982). He appears in the comedy The Thursday Murder Club on Netflix. He says relaxation comes from confidence and a sense of accomplishment, allowing him to put down the tools of his craft. A childhood screening of Never Take No for an Answer inspired him to want to tell that boy's story. His father advised a name change from Krishna Pandit Bhanji to Ben Kingsley, a signature he applies like a painter signing canvases. Twelve years with the Royal Shakespeare Company preceded his collaboration with Richard Attenborough on Gandhi, and he keeps his Oscar in his Oxfordshire home.
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