I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and…

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

— Ben Whishaw

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…

— Ben Whishaw

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…

— Ben Whishaw

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

— Ben Whishaw

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.

— Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

— Ben Whishaw

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

— Ben Whishaw

I'd like to have a go at directing.

— Ben Whishaw

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world…

— Ben Whishaw

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

— Ben Whishaw

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…

— Ben Whishaw

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…

— Ben Whishaw

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

— Ben Whishaw

I don’t think that actors are necessarily any more uncomfortable in their skin than anyone else. I suppose I feel more comfortable in my…

— Ben Whishaw

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

— Ben Whishaw