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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Ben Whishaw

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
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
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
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Be Good Fun Real
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
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
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
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
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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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Intention Slides Theatre
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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People Talking Thinking
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

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