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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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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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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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 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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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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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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 would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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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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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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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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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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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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