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.
BEN WHISHAWI always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished… it is not as if you can look back and think: ah… I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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I don’t think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
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As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don’t see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.
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I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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I always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished… it is not as if you can look back and think: ah… I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be.
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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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