Zitat des Tages von Ben Barnes:
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 have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.
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.
I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.
I didn't have any pets growing up.
I'm not really an animal person.
I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.
I'd rather be shot than be seen falling out of some trendy club.
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.
No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.
I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.
I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.
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.
Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.
I love music, and I love singing.
Half my fan mail comes from Japan.
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.
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.
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.
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
I often talk with other actors about that time when you've just finished a job, because I think you do take on the characteristics of some of the characters you play. Sometimes it can be a great thing and sometimes it's a bit haunting because you're not quite sure how to leave it on set. My dad talks about it as being 'de-personalised.'
People recognize actors that they see regularly, like people they see on the television every week.
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.
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 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.
There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.