Ben Whishaw Quotes
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 playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
Quotes to Explore
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of.
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I had a style before I was signed, but now I'm developing my commercial sound as well as trying to strike a balance between authentic music and music that the masses will love.
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Can I, just one time, play the good guy?
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I suppose that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course they’d have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin.
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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 playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
