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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.

Ben Whishaw

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.
BEN WHISHAW

Bigs Ideas People
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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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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Overcoming People Trying
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
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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Actors Character Trying
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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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Ambition Oscars Winning
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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Acting Day End Past
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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology

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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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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