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

• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Want
  • Scared

• 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

• Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • American
  • Study
  • Competition

• 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

• I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Better

• 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

• I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

  

  John Pilger
  • Up
  • Political

• There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the most different writer from anything I've ever written, but there's something about those really spare sentences that is just tough - it would be too much of an influence. Grace Paley is my favorite writer. Her stuff is so voice-driven, when I read her a lot I want to make my writing more voice-y and dialogue-heavy. I love a lot of stuff in translation.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • Different
  • Influence
  • Favorite

• I am such a political person.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Political
  • Person

• Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!

  

  Bill Henson
  • Life
  • Industry
  • Grey

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

  

  Ben Whishaw