Ben Chaplin Quotes:- Ben Chaplin (born 31 July 1969) is a British actor. He is best known for his roles in films, including The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Washington Square, The Thin Red Line, Birthday Girl, Murder by Numbers, Stage Beauty, The New World, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, Dorian Gray, Cinderella, Snowden, The Legend of Tarzan, and The Dig. His TV roles include Game On, Mad Dogs, and The Nevers.
Chaplin became interested in acting as a teenager, after acting in a theatrical production in his school years at the Princess Margaret Royal Free School. At the age of seventeen, he enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He pursued his early acting career between odd jobs as an office worker, and for a while was employed as a statistician with the London Transport Authority.
Inspirational Ben Chaplin Quotes
“Being an actor is well paid, but it’s a bit like being a circus traveler.”
Ben Chaplin
“I like clothes that are simple and preferably cheap unless I’m being given them for free.”
Ben Chaplin
“I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.”
Ben Chaplin
“When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for upper-class roles. You know what England is like the gradations of accent and how you’re judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you’re from.”
Ben Chaplin
“When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don’t understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you’re Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless.”
Ben Chaplin
