I'd like to have a go at directing.

- Ben Whishaw

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 pl…

- Ben Whishaw

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

- Ben Whishaw

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.

- Ben Whishaw

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

- Ben Whishaw

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

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

- Ben Whishaw

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

- Ben Whishaw

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 to you.

- Ben Whishaw