The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
BEN WHISHAWYour 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.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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.
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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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My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
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Dustin Hoffman also never does the same thing twice which is totally stimulating because you’re always getting something new from him. You never really know what he’s going to do next, so you have to be on your toes.
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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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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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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 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 used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I’m trying to do.
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