I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
BEN WHISHAWThe 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.
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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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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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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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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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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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 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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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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