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When 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.

Ben Whishaw

The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It’s amazing what people do, isn’t it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
BEN WHISHAW

Finding Looks People Yourself
Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.
BEN WHISHAW

Certainty Choices Life Next
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Character Different Looks
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Art Believe Wish
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
BEN WHISHAW

Art Soul Thinking
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
BEN WHISHAW

Cast Lot Thin Thinking
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
BEN WHISHAW

Computer Hopeless Technology
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
I’ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don’t understand what the hell is going on. I’ve no desire at all to go back there.
BEN WHISHAW

Couple Desire Hell
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
BEN WHISHAW

Gone Regimes Workout
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Country People Today
As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don’t see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.
BEN WHISHAW

Eye Rights Understanding
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
BEN WHISHAW

Knack Littles Wizard
The thing about acting is that it’s fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what’s given to you.
BEN WHISHAW

Acting Day End Past
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
BEN WHISHAW

Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
BEN WHISHAW

Background Children Shy

When 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 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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