Ben Kingsley movie quotes

“I often felt a sort of envy of human beings, of that thing they call spirit. Human beings have created a million explanations of the meaning of life in art, in poetry, and mathematical formulas. Certainly, human beings must be the key to the meaning of existence.”

Ben Kingsley - Specialist (evolved metcha)

“Americans they do not deserve what they have. They have the eyes of small children who are forever looking for the next source of distraction, entertainment, sweet taste in the mouth.”
Ben Kingsley - Behrani

“Pollution. Crime. Drugs, poverty, disease, hunger, despair, we throw gobs of money at them and problems only get worse. Why is that? Because money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it.”

Ben Kingsley - Cosmo

“- Bonnie: No. It'd kill him not to play in the park. He loves it.
- Bruce Pandolfini: It just makes my job harder.
- Bonnie: Then your job's harder.”

Joan Allen - Bonnie Waitzkin
Ben Kingsley - Bruce Pandolfini

“- Don: I fucked Jackie. Fucked her. Ask her, she'll tell you. I fucked her.
- Aitch: Yeah. Well, I've fucked you now, haven't I?”

Ben Kingsley - Don Logan
Cavan Kendall - Aitch

“- Xavier Fitch: We decided to make it female so it would be more docile and controllable.
- Preston Lennox: More docile and controllable, eh? You guys don't get out much.”

Ben Kingsley - Xavier Fitch
Michael Madsen - Preston Lennox

“I seem to spend an increasing amount of my precious time correcting your blunders, both private and public.”

Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson

“Quite frankly your attitude appalls me. It's not what you're saying. It's all this stuff you're not saying. Insinuendos.”
Ben Kingsley - Don Logan

- Gal: This is madness, I've had enough of this "Crime and Punishment" bollocks. I'm happy here.
- Don: I won't let you be happy, why should I?
Ray Winstone - Gal
Ben Kingsley - Don Logan

“This planet is 4 solar systems from our own, across the Sea of Bel, at a fixed position of 13-6-90 on sub-center grid 10. It is a solid rich mass, with a dense core of magnetic metallic liquid. The atmosphere is composed of nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon, in amounts 78, 21, and 1% by volume. This is our target. This is Earth. And this is where one...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ben Kingsley - Graydon

“I fucked Jackie. Dirty cow. During what we were doing, she tried to stick her finger up my bum. I nearly hit the roof, you can imagine. I mean, what have you got to think of a woman who'd want to do that?”
Ben Kingsley - Don Logan

“- Mahatma Gandhi: You intend to walk all the way?
- Walker: It's the only way I can get the story. Besides, my name is Walker.”
Ben Kingsley - Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Sheen - Walker

“- Itzhak Stern: How many cigarettes have you smoked tonight?
- Oskar Schindler: Too many.
- Itzhak Stern: For every one you smoke, I smoke half.”
Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern
Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler

“- Sherlock Holmes: I'm reminded of the curious case of the Manchurian Mambo...
- Dr. Watson: Holmes, could I have a word?
- Sherlock Holmes: Yes, what is it?
- Dr. Watson: I believe that was the Manchurian Mamba.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes
Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson

“You will give me the box, right now, or I will kill you, right now.”
Ben Kingsley - Cosmo

“What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.”
Ben Kingsley - Bruce Pandolfini

“- Bruce Pandolfini: Your son creates like Fischer. He sees like him, inside.
- Fred: You can tell this by watching him play some drunks in the park?
- Bruce Pandolfini: Yes. 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 - Bruce Pandolfini
Joe Mantegna - Fred Waitzkin

“- Bruce Pandolfini: Bobby Fischer held the world in contempt.
- Josh Waitzkin: Well, I'm not him.
- Bruce Pandolfini: You're telling me.”
Ben Kingsley - Bruce Pandolfini
Max Pomeranc - Josh Waitzkin

“- Sherlock Holmes: How can I be expected to maintain the character when you belittle me in front of those hooligans?
- Dr. Watson: Character? Are we talking about the same man who once declared with total conviction that the late Colonel Howard had been bludgeoned to death with a blunt excrement?
- Sherlock Holmes: Is it my fault you have such...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes
Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson

“- Sherlock Holmes: Well, if you want my opinion...
- Dr. Watson: I beg your pardon. Opinion, did you say?
- Sherlock Holmes: Oh, my God. Not that speech again.
- Dr. Watson: May I remind you, for your information, sir, that your opinions are my opinions?
- Sherlock Holmes: Oh, piffle!”
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes
Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson

“- Pandit Nehru: Think of what you can do by living, that you cannot do by dying... What do you want?
- Mahatma Gandhi: That the fighting will stop. That you make me believe it will never start again.”
Roshan Seth - Pandit Nehru
Ben Kingsley - Mahatma Gandhi