I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
BEN WHISHAWI 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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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’d like to have a go at directing.
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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 the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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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 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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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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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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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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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I don’t have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It’s not about that for me.
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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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 don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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