Ben Kingsley movie quotes

“This list... is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.”

Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern

It's Hebrew, it's from the Talmud. It says, "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire".
Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern

“- Local #1: A toast to the greatest detective in all the world.
- Sherlock Holmes: Thank you, gentlemen. I am touched.
- Dr. Watson: I can vouch for that!”
Sam Davies - Local #1
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes
Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson

“Yesterday you were better off than you are off today but it took today for you to realize it. But today has arrived and it's too late.”
Ben Kingsley - The Rabbi

“- Hermann van Pels: The Jew traitors here are worse than the Nazis, saving their own skins.
- Otto Frank: In their place you'd do something different?”
Joachim Król - Hermann van Pels
Ben Kingsley - Otto Frank

“In Russia now we say there are only 2 kinds people, those who leave in private jet, and those who leave in coffin.”
Ben Kingsley - Grinko

“There are three things one may not do to save a life including his own. He may not: idol-worship, commit adultery, or perform an act of premeditated murder.”
Ben Kingsley - The Rabbi

“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”
Ben Kingsley - Lasker-Jones

“The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose, the second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk but the third time someone calls you a horse, well then perhaps it's time to go shopping for a saddle.”

Ben Kingsley - The Rabbi

“I, for one, have never advocated passive anything. We must never sumbit to such laws. And I think our resistance must be active and provocative!”
Ben Kingsley - Mahatma Gandhi

“- Gal: I'd be useless.
- Don: Useless?
- Gal: I would be.
- Don: In what way?
- Gal: In every fucking way.
- Don: Why are you swearing? I'm not swearing.”
Ray Winstone - Gal
Ben Kingsley - Don Logan

“- Dr. Watson: Lord Mayor! Don't move until Holmes has searched the area for clues!
- Sherlock Holmes: My God I've trained you well, Watson!”
Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes

- Bruce Pandolfini: Do you know what it means to have "contempt" for your opponent?
- Josh: No.
- Bruce Pandolfini: It means to hate them. You have to hate them Josh, they hate you.
- Josh: But I don't hate them.
- Bruce Pandolfini: Well you'd better start.
Ben Kingsley - Bruce Pandolfini
Max Pomeranc - Josh Waitzkin

“I cannot kill my friend. Kill my friend.”

Ben Kingsley - Cosmo

“- Otto Frank: Don't forget: we are German.
- Anne Frank: No, we're Dutch. Aren't we Margot?
- Margot Frank: Of course we are.
- Anne Frank: I don't want to be German. Not ever.”
Ben Kingsley - Otto Frank
Hannah Taylor Gordon - Anne Frank
Jessica Manley - Margot Frank

“Where does it take place? Must be a bit awkward. I mean we've got two kids, he's got two kids not to mention a wife.”

Ben Kingsley - Robert

“- Mahatma Gandhi: I've traveled so far. And all I've done is come back... home.
- Walker: Now, wait a minute. You know what you're going to do, don't you?
- Mahatma Gandhi: It would have been very uncivil of me to let you make such a long trip for nothing!”
Ben Kingsley - Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Sheen - Walker

“The function of a civil resistance is to provoke response and we will continue to provoke until they respond or change the law. They are not in control; we are.”
Ben Kingsley - Mahatma Gandhi

“- Xavier Fitch: What is it?
- Dr. Laura Baker: Maybe menstrual blood. If she's menstruating, she's definitely capable of reproduction.
- Xavier Fitch: Yes, I know.”

Ben Kingsley - Xavier Fitch
Marg Helgenberger - Dr. Laura Baker

“- Dr. Watson: Moriarty knows... I'm am the only match for his evil genius.
- Sherlock Holmes: You mean he's not trying to kill me?
- Dr. Watson: Of course not. He knows you're an idiot.
- Sherlock Holmes: Oh, thank God.”
Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes

“To put your son in a position to care about winning and not to prepare him is wrong!”

Ben Kingsley - Bruce Pandolfini

“The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.”

Ben Kingsley - Cosmo

“- Margaret Bourke-White: So you really are going to Pakistan then? You are a stubborn man.
- Mahatma Gandhi: I'm simply going to prove to Hindus here and Muslims there that the only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts. And that is where all our battles ought to be fought.
- Margaret Bourke-White: So what kind of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Candice Bergen - Margaret Bourke-White
Ben Kingsley - Mahatma Gandhi

“- Itzhak Stern: By law I have to tell you, sir, I'm a Jew.
- Oskar Schindler: Well, I'm a German, so there we are.”
Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern
Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler

“- Dr. Stephen Arden: Have you found any other bodies?
- Xavier Fitch: No, we haven't not yet.
- Dan Smithson, Empath: You will. She's a predator. Her eyes are in front. Her eyes are in front so she can judge the distance to her prey.”

Alfred Molina - Dr. Stephen Arden
Ben Kingsley - Xavier Fitch
Forest Whitaker - Dan Smithson