Ben Whishaw Quotes

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

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• I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Stories
  • Tennis
  • Brilliant

• My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Writes

• I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Couple
  • Got

• I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • House
  • Woman
  • Write

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Alien
  • Seen
  • Whatever

• Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Different
  • Song
  • Way

• It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Voice
  • Difficult
  • Really

• The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Good
  • Done
  • Education

• We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Same

• To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wisdom
  • Expect
  • Others

• I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • TV

• I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Music
  • Fun

• Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Emotion

• I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Sister

• Appointment viewing is dead, and I think it is going away.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Think
  • Dead
  • Appointment

• The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Imagination

• This cricket is like a burger, you can have it once a week but for a whole meal, you need to return to Test cricket. More than once a week, and it will give you a tummy ache.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

• Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Free
  • Failure

• I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Up
  • Writing

• In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • People
  • Why
  • Technology

• What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, 'Teach me mysticism.' It's a joke.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Today

• I think that sleep and work are very closely related - not because you can work while you're sleeping and sleep while you're working. That's not really what I mean. I'm talking specifically about the fact that sleep and work are phase-based, or stage-based, events.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Work
  • Sleep

• Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter.

  

  Clinton Morrison
  • Job
  • Irishman
  • Ideally

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

  

  Ben Whishaw