Quotes from Ben Whishaw

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'

The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

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.

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.

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.

In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.

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.

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.

I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.

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.

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.

For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

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