Ben Barnes Quotes
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My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
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I'm probably a little too uninhibited.
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I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.
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People recognize actors that they see regularly, like people they see on the television every week.
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I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.
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I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.
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I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.
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There are loads of websites devoted to me.
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We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
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Never agree to say or do anything that isn't you.
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I didn't have any pets growing up.
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I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.
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There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.
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When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.
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When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.
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I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.
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Sword fighting is just as fun as it looks on the screen.
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I swim a lot. I swim most days.
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Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
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I actually went to university.
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Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.
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I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.
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That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.