We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
BEN BARNESI actually went to university.
More Ben Barnes Quotes
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I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.
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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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I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.
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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 can’t run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful.
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I didn’t have any pets growing up.
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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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I’m not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.
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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 think if actors don’t think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can’t do comedy.
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I’m not really an animal person.
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Half my fan mail comes from Japan.
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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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