My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
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More Ben Barnes Quotes
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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
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I actually went to university.
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I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.
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I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.
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I’m probably a little too uninhibited.
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I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.
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Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it’s one of the most simple forms of storytelling.
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I don’t really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.
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When you’re doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.
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I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.
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I think if actors don’t think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can’t do comedy.
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When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
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Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that’s consistent, and it’s consistently interesting, and so people write about it.
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Never agree to say or do anything that isn’t you.
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I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.
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