In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there’s so much that’s against you on a film set.
BEN WHISHAWWhen I finished my A-levels, I assumed I’d be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn’t. I didn’t get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I’d better train and then the parts would come.
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When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way – they make you look at the world in a different way.
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I don’t have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It’s not about that for me.
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My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Dustin Hoffman also never does the same thing twice which is totally stimulating because you’re always getting something new from him. You never really know what he’s going to do next, so you have to be on your toes.
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It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
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I don’t think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can’t say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
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I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there’s pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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