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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.

Ben Whishaw

I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
BEN WHISHAW

States Thinking World
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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People Talking Thinking
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’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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.
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Eye Rights Understanding
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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Be Good Fun Real
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
BEN WHISHAW

Cast Lot Thin Thinking
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 always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished… it is not as if you can look back and think: ah… I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be.
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Dark Jobs Struggle
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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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Able Actors Levels

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