Ben Whishaw movie quotes

“Mrs. Brown says that in London everyone is different, and that means anyone can fit in.”
Ben Whishaw - Paddington

Aunt Lucy said: "If we're kind and polite, the world will be right."
Ben Whishaw - Paddington

“- Michael Banks: Good heavens, it really is you! You seem hardly to have aged at all!
- Mary Poppins: Really? How incredibly rude! One never discusses a woman's age, Michael. Would have hoped I taught you better.
- Michael Banks: I'm sorry, I didn't mean...”
Ben Whishaw - Michael Banks
Emily Blunt - Mary Poppins

“The unknown. That is where my imagination yearns to venture. And so the question plagues me still: How does a man come to know the unknowable?”
Ben Whishaw - Herman Melville

“- Sonny Watts: You're a mother, Maud. You are a wife. You're my wife, and that's all you're meant to be.
- Maud Watts: What if I can't be that anymore?”
Ben Whishaw - Sonny Watts
Carey Mulligan - Maud Watts

“- Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Amor and Psyche by Pelissier?
- Giuseppe Baldini: What ever gave you the absurd idea I would use someone else's perfume?
- Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: It's all over you.”
Ben Whishaw - Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
Dustin Hoffman - Giuseppe Baldini

“Um, you're not using those ear brushes to clean your mouth are you, Mr. Brown?”

Ben Whishaw - Paddington

“- Paddington: Is that you, God?
- Henry Brown: What?
- Paddington: It's just, you sounds a lot more like Mr. Brown that I imagined.
- Henry Brown: It is Mister Brown!”
Ben Whishaw - Paddington
Hugh Bonneville - Henry Brown

“In a way, from the moment of birth, we all begin to die. Call it divinely planned obsolence. Soon or late, beggar or king, death is the end of all things.”
Ben Whishaw - Doctor

“The devil loves unspoken secrets. Especially those that fester in a man's soul.”
Ben Whishaw - Herman Melville

“How does one come to know the unknowable? What faculties must a man possess? Since it was discovered that whale oil could light our cities in ways never achieved before, it created global demand. It has pushed man to venture further and further into the deep blue unknown. We know not its depths, nor the host of creatures that live there....” (continue)(continue reading)
Ben Whishaw - Herman Melville

“- Q: My complexion is hardly relevant.
- James Bond: Your competence is.
- Q: Age is no guarantee of efficiency.
- James Bond: And youth is no guarantee of innovation.”
Ben Whishaw - Q
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“- Q: It always makes me feel a bit melancholy. Grand old war ship, being ignominiously haunted away to scrap... The inevitability of time, don't you think? What do you see?
- James Bond: A bloody big ship. Excuse me.”
Ben Whishaw - Q
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“Do the stories exist only to make us respect the sea's dark secrets?”
Ben Whishaw - Herman Melville

“- Paddington: Good morning Aunt Lucy!
- Aunt Lucy: Good morning my little hurricane.
- Uncle Pastuzo: Why do you have to come crushing in here like a natural disaster?”
Ben Whishaw - Paddington
Imelda Staunton - Aunt Lucy
Sir Michael Gambon - Uncle Pastuzo

“- James Bond: [Q hands Bond a watch] What does it do?
- Q: It tells the time. Might help with your punctuality issues.
- James Bond: M's idea?
- Q: Precisely. Oh, one word of warning, the alarm is rather loud... if you know what I mean.”
Daniel Craig - James Bond
Ben Whishaw - Q

Mind you, there wasn't much left to work, only a steering wheel. I believe I said, "Bring it back in one piece," not, "Bring back one piece".
Ben Whishaw - Q

“- Herman Melville: Something else you've given me tonight.
- Tom Nickerson: And what's that?
- Herman Melville: The courage to go where one does not want to go.”
Ben Whishaw - Herman Melville
Brendan Gleeson - Tom Nickerson

“I'll never be like other people, but that's alright, because I'm a bear. A bear called Paddington.”
Ben Whishaw - Paddington

“- Q: There are only about six people in the world who could set up fail-safes like this.
- James Bond: Can you get past them?
- Q: I invented them.”
Ben Whishaw - Q
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“Life might be seen as a virus infecting the perfect organism of death.”
Ben Whishaw - Doctor