English - Actor | October 14, 1980 -
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 Whishaw
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I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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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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I'd like to have a go at directing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.
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