It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
BEN WHISHAWI find it weird that people want to know about you.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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 think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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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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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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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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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 don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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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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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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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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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Dustin Hoffman also never does the same thing twice which is totally stimulating because you’re always getting something new from him. You never really know what he’s going to do next, so you have to be on your toes.
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