Ben Whishaw

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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life. ”

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

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you. ”

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

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

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

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

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing. ”