For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
BEN WHISHAWI’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can’t say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
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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.
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The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café 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.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way – they make you look at the world in a different way.
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When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I’d be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn’t. I didn’t get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I’d better train and then the parts would come.
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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.
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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.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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