Ben Whishaw Quotes

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.

I was very affected as a foreigner coming from Copenhagen, which is the safest, most liberal town in the entire galaxy. I was like an alien stranded in a strange land for the first time in the U.S.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.

I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.

Everywhere I go, I feel strange.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.

Though we are more prosperous a nation and more connected a global community than ever before, many of us still feel lonely, disoriented and uncertain of the future.

In Heidelberg, in Hoffenheim, there's not much going on. I am so used to being around my London estate, so when I am here I am kind of lost in a different environment, a different area.

…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America?

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

I didn't enjoy my college life in Noida much because I was quite disoriented there, since I was staying away from my family.

In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.

I panic when we're on tour and feel the world can leave you behind. When we finish touring, I feel like I'm running to catch up and find out what's been happening.

We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.

Being cut off from the outside world is scary.

I feel like a Space Jam' creature.

I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world.

Even when I wrap my work and come home or whatever it is I try to do, I can identify with that feeling of being a little outside, of struggling to get back into normality.

I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me.

From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can't. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it scares me.