64 Quotes by Ben Barnes

I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.

I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you've become an actor because it's your way of hiding in plain sight, there's still part of you which has that craving.

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

Sword fighting is just as fun as it looks on the screen.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.

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.