Ben Kingsley

Highest Rated: 100% Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

Lowest Rated: 4% BloodRayne (2006)

Birthday: Dec 31, 1943

Birthplace: Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK

Chameleon-like British actor Ben Kingsley has proven he can play just about anyone, from Nazi war criminals to Jewish Holocaust survivors to quiet British bookshop owners. For many viewers, however, he will always be inextricably linked with his title role in Gandhi, a film that won him an Oscar and the undying respect of critics and filmgoers alike.Of English, East Indian, and South African descent, Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Snaiton, Yorkshire, England. The son of a general practitioner, Kingsley started out in amateur theatricals in Manchester before making his professional debut at age 23. In 1967 he made his first London appearance at the Aldwych theater and then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, devoting himself almost exclusively to stage work for the next 15 years (with the exception of two obscure films, Fear Is the Key [1972] and Hard Labour [1973]). When asked about his favorite stage roles, he listed Hamlet, The Tempest's Ariel, and Volpone's Mosca.American audiences first saw Kingsley in 1971, when he made his Broadway debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1982, actor and director Richard Attenborough selected Kingsley for the demanding title role in the epic Gandhi. The film swept the international awards that year, earning the 39-year-old actor overnight success. Among the several awards he was honored with, Kingsley won a Best Actor Oscar. Adamantly refusing to recycle the same roles, Kingsley spent the next decade playing a wide spectrum of characters. Among his more notable parts were an Arab potentate in Harem (1985), an introverted bibliophile and "social rebel" in Turtle Diary (also 1985), a spy of little import in Pascali's Island (1988), an incorruptible American vice president in Dave (1992), New York gangster Meyer Lansky in Bugsy (1992), a Jewish bookkeeper in Schindler's List (1993), and a suspected Nazi war criminal in Death and the Maiden (1994). So many of his characters have been either taciturn or downright villainous that, upon being cast in a good-guy role in the escapist sci-fier Species (1995), Kingsley publicly expressed his relief in several widely circulated magazine articles.In the latter half of the 1990s, Kingsley continued to embrace a variety of eclectic roles, with turns as the Fool in Trevor Nunn's 1996 film adaptation of Twelfth Night, a media mogul in the 1997 made-for-HBO satire Weapons of Mass Distraction, and the barbarous barber Sweeney Todd in John Schlesinger's 1998 The Tale of Sweeney Todd. Kingsley also took Broadway by storm with his one-man show Edward Kean (later taped for cable), which was directed by his wife, Alison Sutcliffe. Though Kingsley had retained the variety in his career that he had so diligently pursued, the ever-sharp actor remained as focused as ever heading into the new millennium. For his role as a manipulative criminal with a strong power for persuasion in Sexy Beast (2001), Kingsley earned both a Golden Globe nomination and a third Oscar nomination. His fourth Academy nod would come just 2 years later with his role as a proud Arab-American patriarch in The House of Sand and Fog. Along with the Best Actor Oscar nomination, the role also netted Kingsley Golden Globe and Screen Actor's Guild nominations. Kingsley lost his Oscar bid for House to Sean Penn, who collected the statue for his contribution to Clint Eastwood's Mystic River. Over the next several years, Sir Ben Kingsley's acting choices often demonstrated the degree of difficulty that A-listers may encounter when seeking multilayered roles in respectable films, with solid scripts and direction; like many of his contemporaries, the magnificent thespian Kingsley turned up in more than one schlocky Hollywood stinker after House of Sand and Fog -- from Jonathan Frakes's ugly Thunderbirds revamp (2004) to Uwe Boll's horrendous, gothic fx-extravaganza BloodRayne (2006) (as evil ruler Lord Kagan). If anyone could ferret out the creme-de-la-creme of roles, howe

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Lockdown	Actor	—	2021
11%	Intrigo: Death of an Author	Henderson	—	2020
No Score Yet	Auschwitz Untold	Actor	—	2020
14%	Night Hunter (Nomis)	Cooper	—	2019
75%	Spider in the Web	Adereth	—	2019
29%	The Red Sea Diving Resort	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	Schindler's List 25th Anniversary	Actor	—	2018
61%	Operation Finale	Adolf Eichmann	—	2018
38%	Backstabbing for Beginners	Pasha	—	2018
41%	An Ordinary Man	The General	—	2018
No Score Yet	Sam Spiegel: Conquering Hollywood	Actor	—	2018
49%	War Machine	Actor	—	2017
19%	The Ottoman Lieutenant	Woodruff	$0.2M	2017
24%	Collide	Geran	$2.2M	2017
No Score Yet	Security	Actor	—	2017
47%	Ordinary World	Actor	—	2016
94%	The Jungle Book	Bagheera	$364M	2016
47%	Knight of Cups	Actor	$0.4M	2016
64%	Life	Jack Warner	—	2015
83%	The Walk	Papa Rudy	$8.1M	2015
66%	Learning To Drive	Darwan	—	2015
19%	Self/Less	Damian	—	2015
61%	Robot Overlords	Robin Smythe	—	2015
No Score Yet	Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse	Drago	—	2015
No Score Yet	The Secret Of The Sahara	Actor	—	2015
47%	Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb	Merenkahre	$81.6M	2014
30%	Exodus: Gods and Kings	Nun	—	2014
No Score Yet	The Physician	Ibn Sina	—	2014
55%	Stonehearst Asylum	Actor	—	2014
78%	The Boxtrolls	Archibald Snatcher	$52.1M	2014
57%	War Story	Albert	—	2014
45%	Walking With The Enemy	Regent Horthy	$0.4M	2014
No Score Yet	Tcm Presents And The Oscar (R) Goes To...	Actor	—	2014
86%	A Birder's Guide To Everything	Lawrence Conrad	—	2014
62%	Ender's Game	Mazer Rackham	$61.7M	2013
79%	Iron Man 3	The Mandarin	$409M	2013
No Score Yet	A Common Man	The Man	—	2013
62%	It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl	Narrator	—	2012
57%	The Dictator	Tamir	$57.8M	2012
No Score Yet	Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'	Actor	—	2012
93%	Hugo	Georges Méliès	$73.9M	2011
89%	The Desert Of Forbidden Art	Igor Savitsky	—	2011
No Score Yet	Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny	Actor	—	2011
No Score Yet	Teen Patti	Perci Trachtenberg	—	2010
37%	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	Nizam	$90.8M	2010
68%	Shutter Island	Dr. Cawley	$125.1M	2010
No Score Yet	Aral. El mar perdido	Narrator	—	2010
88%	Journey to Mecca	Narrator	—	2009
83%	Fifty Dead Men Walking	Fergus	$1.8M	2008
91%	Transsiberian	Grinko	$2.1M	2008
70%	The Wackness	Dr. Squires	$2.1M	2008
14%	The Love Guru	Guru Tugginmypuddah	$32.2M	2008
29%	War, Inc.	Walken/The Videroy	$0.6M	2008
75%	Elegy	David Kepesh	$3.5M	2008
18%	The Ten Commandments	the NarratorNarrator	$0.9M	2007
No Score Yet	China's Stolen Children	Narrator	—	2007
15%	The Last Legion	Ambrosinus/Merlin	$6M	2007
78%	You Kill Me	Frank Falenczyk	$2.4M	2007
80%	I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life And Legacy Of Simon Wiesenthal	Actor	—	2007
52%	Lucky Number Slevin	The Rabbi	$22.5M	2006
4%	BloodRayne	Kagan	$1.6M	2006
No Score Yet	Testimony - The Story Of Shostakovich	Actor	—	2006
60%	Oliver Twist	Fagin	$2M	2005
6%	A Sound of Thunder	Charles Hatton Director	$1.8M	2005
43%	Mrs. Harris	Dr. Herman Tarnower	—	2005
18%	Suspect Zero	Benjamin O'Ryan	$8.6M	2004
19%	Thunderbirds	The Hood	$6.8M	2004
No Score Yet	Spooky House	The Great Zamboni	—	2004
No Score Yet	Helena: First Pilgrim to the Holy Land	Narrator	—	2003
74%	House of Sand and Fog	Behrani	$13M	2003
No Score Yet	Unlikely Heroes	Narrator	—	2003
60%	Tuck Everlasting	Man in the Yellow Suit	$19.1M	2002
No Score Yet	The Magic Never Ends - The Life and Work of C.S. Lewis	Actor	—	2002
49%	The Triumph of Love	Hermocrates	$0.4M	2002
74%	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Specialist/NarratorSpecialist	—	2001
No Score Yet	Anne Frank	Otto Frank	—	2001
No Score Yet	Jesus and His Times	Actor	—	2000
37%	Rules of Engagement	Ambassador Mourain	—	2000
87%	Sexy Beast	Don Logan	$6M	2000
42%	What Planet Are You From?	Graydon	—	2000
No Score Yet	Islam: Empire of Faith	Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	Parting Shots	Renzo Locatelli	—	1999
33%	Alice in Wonderland	Major Caterpillar	—	1999
40%	The Confession	Harry Fertig	—	1999
No Score Yet	A Force More Powerful	Narrator	—	1999
82%	Photographing Fairies	Rev. Templeton	—	1998
76%	Twelfth Night	Feste	—	1998
No Score Yet	Crime And Punishment	Porfiry	—	1998
No Score Yet	The Tale of Sweeney Todd	Sweeney Todd	—	1998
No Score Yet	Peace Is Every Step: Meditation in Action: The Life and Work of Thich Nhat Hanh	Actor	—	1998
60%	The Assignment	Amos	—	1997
No Score Yet	Weapons of Mass Distraction	Julian Messenger	—	1997
No Score Yet	Moses	Moses	—	1995
43%	Species	Xavier Fitch	—	1995
82%	Death and the Maiden	Dr. Roberto Miranda	—	1995
No Score Yet	Joseph	Actor	—	1995
No Score Yet	Liberation	Actor	—	1994
98%	Schindler's List	Itzhak Stern	—	1993
100%	Searching for Bobby Fischer	Bruce Pandolfini	—	1993
95%	Dave	Vice President Nance	—	1993
79%	Sneakers	Cosmo	—	1992
No Score Yet	Freddie as F.R.O.7	Freddie the Frog	—	1992
84%	Bugsy	Meyer Lansky	—	1991
No Score Yet	Children, The	Martin Boyle	—	1991
No Score Yet	Tiger and the Brahmin	Narrator	—	1991
20%	O Quinto Macaco	Actor	—	1990
No Score Yet	The 5th Monkey	Cunda	—	1990
43%	Slipstream	Avatar	—	1989
No Score Yet	Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story	Simon Wiesenthal	—	1989
69%	Pascali's Island	Basil Pascali	—	1988
64%	Without a Clue	Dr. John Watson	—	1988
86%	Maurice	Lasker-Jones	—	1987
No Score Yet	Ladakh: in Harmony with the Spirit	Actor	—	1986
No Score Yet	Silas Marner	Silas Marner	—	1985
82%	Turtle Diary	William Snow	—	1985
No Score Yet	Harem	Selim	—	1985
No Score Yet	Camille	Duval	—	1984
86%	Betrayal	Robert	—	1983
No Score Yet	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Frank Ford	—	1982
85%	Gandhi	Mahatma Gandhi	—	1982
No Score Yet	Dickens of London	Actor	—	1977
No Score Yet	Antony and Cleopatra	Actor	—	1975
No Score Yet	Hard Labour	Naseem	—	1973
No Score Yet	Fear Is the Key	Royale	—	1973

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
88%	Perpetual Grace LTD 2019	Pastor Byron Brown Pastor Byron Brown / Pa	2019
No Score Yet	The Late Late Show With James Corden 2015	Guest	2019 2015
No Score Yet	All or Nothing: Manchester City 2018	Narrator	2018
No Score Yet	CBS This Morning 2012	Guest	2018
74%	Watership Down 2018	Voice Actor	2018
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014	Guest	2017 2016 2015 2014
No Score Yet	Lip Sync Battle 2015-2019	Performer	2016
No Score Yet	The Talk 2010	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	Late Night With Seth Meyers 2014	Guest	2016 2015
37%	Tut 2015	Ay	2015
No Score Yet	Charlie Rose 2013-2017	Guest	2015 2001
No Score Yet	Conan 2010	Guest	2014
100%	Garfunkel and Oates 2014	Himself	2014
No Score Yet	Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 2009-2014	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson 2005-2014	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014	Guest	2013
No Score Yet	Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003	Guest	2013 2012
No Score Yet	Independent Lens 1999	Voice	2011
No Score Yet	The View 1997	Guest	2011
No Score Yet	Lopez Tonight 2009-2011	Guest	2010
92%	The Sopranos 1999-2007	Himself	2006

Quotes from Ben Kingsley's Characters

Harry Fertig:	You alright?
Roy Bleake:	What was it you told me? People think it's hard to do the right thing.
Harry Fertig:	It's not hard to do the right thing.
Roy Bleake:	It's hard to know what the right thing is - but once you know...
Harry Fertig:	Once you know... Once you know what is right, then it's hard not to do it.
Harry Fertig:	Once you know... once you know what is right, then it's hard not to do it.
Roy Bleake:	I slept with your wife.
Roy Bleake:	I slept with your wife.
Harry Fertig:	I know. She told me. A good man is not without sin. He admits - and expiates his sin.
Harry Fertig:	I know. She told me. A good man is not without sin. He admits - and expiates his sin.
Roy Bleake:	I need you to do something for me.
Roy Bleake:	I need you to do something for me.

Bagheera:

Run Mowgli!

Baloo:	What did I tell you? He's special.
Bagheera:	I know. I raised him.

Bagheera:

I realize you weren't born a wolf, but couldn't you just act like one?

Bagheera:

If you can't learn to run with the pack, one of these days, you'll be someone's dinner.

Bagheera:	Bears don't hibernate in the jungle.
Baloo:	Not full hibernation, but I nap...a lot.

Darwan:

I think it's time to discuss road rage.

Darwan:

When a man marries a woman they become one spirit.

Darwan:	You can't always trust people to behave.
Wendy:	Ain't that the truth.

Papa Rudy:

This isn't a game, Philippe. One mistake out there and you're going to die.

Drago:

Evil desires can spoil a dream, just like they can, a heart.

Drago:

Evil desires can spoil a dream, just like they can a heart.

Lawrence Konrad:

There's nothing like the feeling of discovery.

Mazer Rackham:	He's abandoning his entire fleet.
Colonel Hyrum Graff:	He's in command. There's no stopping him now.

Ender Wiggin:	What is this? Why are we watching these images?
Colonel Hyrum Graff:	Ender. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Thank God for you son.
Ender Wiggin:	Why are these images in the program?
Colonel Hyrum Graff:	Ender. We won.
Ender Wiggin:	What do you mean we won? I beat him. He runs the simulations. He said it was a game.
Mazer Rackham:	It was them or us Ender. There was no other way.

Mahatma Gandhi:

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles ought to fought.

Mahatma Gandhi:

There is no people on earth who would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power.

Mahatma Gandhi:

An eye for an eye just ends up making the whole world blind.

Mazer Rackham:

Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?

Colonel Hyrum Graff:	We need minds like yours, Ender. You'll be the finest commander we've ever trained.
Ender Wiggin:	So I'm not the first…
Mazer Rackham:	No, but you will be the last.

The Mandarin:	you don't know who I am. you don't know where I am. and you'll never see me coming.
The Mandarin:	You don't know who I am. You don't know where I am and you'll never see me coming.

The Mandarin:	True story about fortune cookies: they look Chinese, they sound Chinese, but they're actually an American invention. which is why they're hollow, full of lies and leave a bad taste in the mouth.
The Mandarin:	True story about fortune cookies: they look Chinese, they sound Chinese, but they're actually an American invention. Which is why they're hollow, full of lies and leave a bad taste in the mouth.

The Mandarin:	Heroes? There is no such thing...
The Mandarin:	Heroes? There is no such thing.

The Mandarin:	You'll never see me coming...
The Mandarin:	You'll never see me coming.

The Mandarin:

Ole Ole Ole!

The Mandarin:

I'm going to give you a choice. Do you want an empty life or a meaningful death?

The Mandarin:	Don,t shoot me in the face i,m an actor
The Mandarin:	Don't shoot me in the face, I'm an actor.

The Mandarin:

Well, I panicked, but then I handled it.

The Mandarin:

You don't know who I am. You'll never see me coming.

The Mandarin:	Mr Stark today is the first day of what's left of your life
The Mandarin:	Mr Stark, today is the first day of what's left of your life.

The Mandarin:	You don't know who I am. you'll never see me coming
The Mandarin:	You don't know who I am. you'll never see me coming.

The Mandarin:

You will never see me coming.

Station inspector:	We'll let the orphanage deal with you
Hugo Cabret:	No! I don't belong there!
Station inspector:	Where do you belong then? A child has to belong somewhere!
Hugo Cabret:	Listen to me! Please, please listen to me! You don't understand! You have to let me go. I don't understand why, why father died, why I'm alone. It is my only chance.. to work (looks at the Inspector's artificial leg). You should understand!
Hugo Cabret:	Listen to me! Please, please listen to me! You don't understand! You have to let me go. I don't understand why, why father died, why I'm alone. It is my only chance.. to work. [looks at the Inspector's artificial leg] You should understand!
Georges Méliès:	I do. I do. Monsieur, this child belongs to me.

Dr. Cawley:

Sanity is not a choice Marshall, you can't just choose to get over it.

The Mandarin:

Lesson number one. Heroes, there is no such thing.

Fagin:

Do you know what I consider the greatest sin in the world, my dear? Ingratitude.

Fagin:

Fine fellows. Fine fellows.

The Mandarin:	Ladies, children, sheep... Some people call me a terrorist. I consider myself a teacher
The Mandarin:	Ladies, children, sheep... Some people call me a terrorist. I consider myself a teacher.

The Mandarin:

Ladies, children, sheep... Some people call me a terrorist. I consider myself a teacher.

The Mandarin:

Some people call me a terrorist, I consider myself a teacher.

The Mandarin:	Lesson Number One: Heroes. There's no such thing
The Mandarin:	Lesson Number One: Heroes. There's no such thing.

Benjamin O'Ryan:

We were wired right into it. The five of us. Darkness, the pit itself, and no one ever taught us how to turn it off.We saw things men shouldn't see.

Benjamin O'Ryan:

Nobody's told me how to turn it off. And you're going to help me. Help me turn it off.

Itzhak Stern:	Herr Direktor, Don't Let Things Fall Apart, I Worked Too Hard.
Itzhak Stern:	Herr Direktor, don't let the things fall apart. I worked too hard.

Ambrosinus:

We need heroes, don't we?

Itzhak Stern:

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

Don "Malky" Logan:

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Mahatma Gandhi:

I want to change their minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all possess.

Mahatma Gandhi:

Where there is injustice, I always believed in fighting. The question is: do you fight to change things or do you fight to punish? I've found we're all such sinners we should leave punishment to God.

Mahatma Gandhi:

In this cause, I, too, am prepared to die. But, my friends, there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Mahatma Gandhi:

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

George:	Beautiful women are invisible.
David Kepesh:	Invisible? What the hell does that mean? They jump out at you. A beautiful woman stands out... stands apart. You can't miss her.
George:	But we never actually see the person. We see the beautiful shell. We're blocked by the beauty barrier. Yes. We're so dazzled by the outside, we never make it inside.

David Kepesh:

Why all this talk about Kafka, Goya and her Cuban family? Don't get me wrong, it's great that her family's Cuban and she enjoys my class. But I go on yakking away mainly because I want to fuck her.

David Kepesh:

Old age sneaks up on you, and the next thing you know you're asking yourself, I'm asking myself, Why can't an old man act his real age? How is it possible for me to still be involved in the carnal aspects of the human comedy? Because, in my head, nothing has changed.

David Kepesh:	I think it was Bette Davis who said: "Old age is not for sissies". But it was Tolstoy who said that "the biggest surprise in a man's life is old age".
David Kepesh:	I think it was Bette Davis who said: 'Old age is not for sissies'. But it was Tolstoy who said that 'the biggest surprise in a man's life is old age'.

Mahatma Gandhi:

The function of a civil resistor is to provoke response, and we will continue to provoke until they respond or change the law.

Mahatma Gandhi:	They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. But not my obedience!"
Mahatma Gandhi:	They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. But not my obedience!

Freddie the Frog:	I wasn't a Prince I was so long ago
Freddie the Frog:	I wasn't a Prince I was so long ago.

Dr. Jeffrey Squires:

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.

Dr. Jeffrey Squires:

It's great, living. Get your heart broken, find yourself face down in the gutter, get your balls sucked, make a real mess of a life.

Schlomo:

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.

Tamir:	[to Aladeen] your wearing Crocs?
Tamir:	[to Aladeen] You're wearing Crocs?

Georges Méliès:

I trusted you. And this is how you pay me. You're cruel. You're cruel.

Itzhak Stern:

The list is an absolute good...The list is life.

Hugo Cabret:	I'm sorry, it's broken.
Georges Méliès:	No it's not. It worked perfectly!

Georges Méliès:	If you ever wonder where your dreams come from, look around: this is where they’re made
Georges Méliès:	If you ever wonder where your dreams come from, look around: this is where they're made
Georges Méliès:	If you ever wonder where your dreams come from, look around: this is where they're made.

Dr. Cawley:

You don't have a partner, Marshall. You came here alone.

Bruce Pandolfini:

This is you!

Dr. Cawley:

Why're you all wet, baby?

Georges Méliès:

Come, and dream with me.

Oskar Schindler:	I could have got more. I could have got more, I don't know. If I just...I could have got more.
Oskar Schindler:	I could have got more. I could have got more, I don't know. If I just...I could have got more.
Itzhak Stern:	Oskar, there are 1,100 people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
Itzhak Stern:	Oskar, there are 1,100 people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
Oskar Schindler:	If I had made more money. I threw away so much money. (laughs, then gets teary-eyed) You have no idea. If I just...
Oskar Schindler:	If I had made more money. I threw away so much money. [laughs, then gets teary-eyed] You have no idea. If I just...
Itzhak Stern:	There will be generations because of you.
Oskar Schindler:	I didn't do enough.
Itzhak Stern:	You did so much.
Oskar Schindler:	This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people. This pin...two people. This is gold. Two people. He would have given me two more, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern, for this. (starts crying) I could have got one more person, and I didn't! I -- I -- I -- I didn't!
Oskar Schindler:	This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people. This pin...two people. This is gold. Two people. He would have given me two more, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern, for this. [starts crying] I could have got one more person, and I didn't! I -- I -- I -- I didn't!
Oskar Schindler:	This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people. This pin...two people. This is gold. Two people. He would have given me two more, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern, for this. [starts crying] I could have got one more person, and I didn't! I -- I -- I -- I didn't!

Oskar Schindler:	I've been speaking to Goeth.
Itzhak Stern:	I know the destination. These are the evacuation orders, I'm to help arrange the shipments, put myself on the last train.
Oskar Schindler:	That's not what I was going to say. I made Goeth promise to put in a good word for you. Nothing bad is going to happen to you there, you'll receive special treatment.
Itzhak Stern:	The directives coming in from Berlin talk about "special treatment" more and more often. I'd like to think that's not what you mean.
Itzhak Stern:	The directives coming in from Berlin talk about 'special treatment' more and more often. I'd like to think that's not what you mean.
Oskar Schindler:	Preferential treatment. All right? Do we have to create a new language?
Itzhak Stern:	I think so.

Georges Méliès:	Happy endings only happen in the movies
Georges Méliès:	Happy endings only happen in the movies.
Hugo Cabret:	Stories not over yet
Hugo Cabret:	The story's not over yet.

Itzhak Stern:

The list is life.

Itzhak Stern:	How many cigarettes have you smoked?
Itzhak Stern:	How many cigarettes have you smoked tonight?
Oskar Schindler:	Too many, why?
Oskar Schindler:	Too many.
Itzhak Stern:	Because for every cigarette you smoke, I smoke the half.
Itzhak Stern:	For every one you smoke, I smoke half.

Oskar Schindler:	Are you Itzhak Stern? Yes or no?
Itzhak Stern:	Yes I am
Itzhak Stern:	Yes I am.

Dr. Cawley:

I've built something valuable here and valuable things have a way of being misunderstood in their own time. Everyone wants a quick fix. I'm trying to do something that people, yourself included, don't understand, and I'm not going to give up without a fight.

David Kepesh:

Times passes when you're not looking.

David Kepesh:

When you make love to a woman you get revenge for all the things that defeated you in life.