Ben Whishaw Quotations

I'd like to have a go at directing.

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

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 love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

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.

My #‎ intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

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.

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

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.