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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Ben Whishaw

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
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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Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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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Acting Character Stories
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
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’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.
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Certainty Choices Life Next
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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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 think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking

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