My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
BEN WHISHAWI think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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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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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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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