79 Quotes by Ben Whishaw

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

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.

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.