I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
BEN WHISHAWI love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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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’d like to have a go at directing.
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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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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’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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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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 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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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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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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My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
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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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Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I’m trying to do.
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The thing about acting is that it’s fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what’s given 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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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
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One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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