My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
BEN WHISHAWIn 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.
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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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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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.
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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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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