Ben Barnes famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Bridges #Actors #My Favorite
We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
-- Ben Barnes

#Culture #Youth #Film
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.
-- Ben Barnes

#Uncles #War #Average
Never agree to say or do anything that isn't you.
-- Ben Barnes

#Agree
I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.
-- Ben Barnes
I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.
-- Ben Barnes

#Thinking #Escaping #Creating
I'm probably a little too uninhibited.
-- Ben Barnes

#Littles
I'd rather be shot than be seen falling out of some trendy club.
-- Ben Barnes

#Fall #Clubs #Trendy
I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.
-- Ben Barnes

#Thinking #Fool #Playing The Fool
I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.
-- Ben Barnes

#Want #Popularity #Advantage
I can't run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful.
-- Ben Barnes

#Running #Would Be #Awful
I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.
-- Ben Barnes

#Character #Play #Interesting
I'm not really an animal person.
-- Ben Barnes

#Animal #Persons
Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that's consistent, and it's consistently interesting, and so people write about it.
-- Ben Barnes

#Attitude #Writing #People
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.
-- Ben Barnes

#Years #Play #Age
I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.
-- Ben Barnes

#Dream #Fall #Wake Up
Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.
-- Ben Barnes

#Simple #Historical #Actors
When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.
-- Ben Barnes

#Taken #People #Decision
When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
-- Ben Barnes

#School #Years #Age
I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.
-- Ben Barnes

#Real #Thinking #Actors
I didn't have any pets growing up.
-- Ben Barnes

#Growing Up #Pet #Growing
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
-- Ben Barnes

#Dad #Doctors #Professors
I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.
-- Ben Barnes

#Done #Proud #Projects
Half my fan mail comes from Japan.
-- Ben Barnes

#Japan #Fans #Half
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.
-- Ben Barnes

#Who I Am #Years #Would Be
I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.
-- Ben Barnes

#Creative #Bob #Kind

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