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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.

Ben Whishaw

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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
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
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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Art Soul Thinking
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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Finding Looks People Yourself
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they’re great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
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Bigs Ideas People
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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Country People Today
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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
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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Art Believe Wish
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy

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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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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