Top 30 Ben Barnes Quotes

I’m not really an animal person.

I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.

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.

Sometimes success comes in ways you don’t expect.

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn’t lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

People recognize actors that they see regularly, like people they see on the television every week.

My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

I actually went to university.

You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, ‘Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can’t do that.’ I don’t think that’s something that will ever go away in me.

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

Sword fighting is just as fun as it looks on the screen.

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

I’ve actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I’ve played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I’ve worked in.

Never agree to say or do anything that isn’t you.

Half my fan mail comes from Japan.

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

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.

I didn’t have any pets growing up.

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.

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.

I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.

I don’t believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

I don’t really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.

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.

I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you’ve become an actor because it’s your way of hiding in plain sight, there’s still part of you which has that craving.

I’m not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.