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.
BEN WHISHAWI’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.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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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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We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.
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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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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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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The thing about acting is that it’s fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what’s given to you.
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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I don’t have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It’s not about that for me.
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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 think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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