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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

Ben Whishaw

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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Knack Littles Wizard
I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World
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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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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Character Different Looks
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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 I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
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
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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People Reaction Simplicity
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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

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