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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

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.
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Couple Desire Hell
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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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Intention Slides Theatre
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.
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Certainty Choices Life Next
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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Painters Sculptors Stills
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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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Character Different Looks
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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Knack Littles Wizard
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.
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People Reaction Simplicity
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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Ambition Oscars Winning
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World

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.

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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.

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