I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
BEN WHISHAWFor me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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 think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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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’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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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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 think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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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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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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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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