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
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. — 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
