Ben Whishaw

“I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.”

“I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.”

“I'd like to have a go at directing.”

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

“The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.”

“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 love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel... I sort of get very excited and fed by.”

“I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.”

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

“I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.”

“I'm a fairly private person.”

“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.”

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

“One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.”

“I love taking on other people's words. They are much more interesting to me than my own.”

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

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

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

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