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

- Ben Barnes

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

- Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

- Ben Barnes

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.

- Ben Barnes

Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven't chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I've been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.

- Ben Barnes

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.

- Ben Barnes

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.

- Ben Barnes

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

- Ben Barnes

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

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

- Ben Barnes

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

- Ben Barnes

I'm probably a little too uninhibited.

- Ben Barnes

I'm not really an animal person.

- Ben Barnes

I'd rather be shot than be seen falling out of some trendy club.

- Ben Barnes

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

- Ben Barnes

I swim a lot. I swim most days.

- Ben Barnes

I love music, and I love singing.

- Ben Barnes

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

- Ben Barnes

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

- Ben Barnes

I didn't have any pets growing up.

- Ben Barnes