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. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
