I think if actors don’t think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can’t do comedy.
BEN BARNESI think if actors don’t think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can’t do comedy.
BEN BARNESSexuality 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.
BEN BARNESI swim a lot. I swim most days.
BEN BARNESI’m probably a little too uninhibited.
BEN BARNESHalf my fan mail comes from Japan.
BEN BARNESMost actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it’s one of the most simple forms of storytelling.
BEN BARNESJeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.
BEN BARNESI am comfortable playing the fool, I think.
BEN BARNESWhen you’re doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.
BEN BARNESI actually went to university.
BEN BARNESWe live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
BEN BARNESI would like to work with whoever would like to have me.
BEN BARNESI 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.
BEN BARNESI have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.
BEN BARNESI 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.
BEN BARNESI want to take advantage of any popularity I have.
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