Ben Whishaw Quotes

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

I'm a fairly private person.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

I don't think that actors are necessarily any more uncomfortable in their skin than anyone else. I suppose I feel more comfortable in my skin now, but you're always playing a character, aren't you? You tell different versions of yourself to different people and vice versa. Here, or in the photo shoot or wherever, it's a representation of you. It's not you-you. That's how you get through it.

I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel ... I sort of get very excited and fed by.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.

For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

As an actor, you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.

I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don't understand what the hell is going on. I've no desire at all to go back there.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

I'd like to have a go at directing.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

I can be shy, but I'm not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.

I find it weird that people want to know about you.

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

I always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished ... it is not as if you can look back and think: ah ... I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be ...