Top 43 Quotes by Ben Whishaw

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.

I'd like to have a go at directing.

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

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

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

I find it weird that people want to know about you.

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.

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.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.