"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."

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Source : "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

Ben Kingsley

#Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Fire Quotes

“The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.”
“When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.”
“You find a flower half-buried in leaves, And in your eye its very fate resides. Loving beauty, you caress the bloom; Soon enough, you'll sweep petals from the floor. Terrible to love the lovely so, To count your own years, to say I'm old, To see a flower half-buried in leaves And come face to face with what you are.”
“There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude of the aura I see, when Alan performs.”
“Memphisâ€”itâ€™s just a bird. Birds fly around, brother. Itâ€™s what they do. Itâ€™s not following you, and itâ€™s not a sign. Unless you really did give it candy and flowers, in which case you are one strange brother.”
“While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.”
“I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a sign that said, Eat Me.”

Source : "Ricky Williams: Taking the Veggie Plunge" by Jennifer Santiago, PETAWorld.com, March 23, 2006.
“I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.”

Source : Quoted in Basil Davidson, Africa in Modern History: The Search for a New Society (1978)

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