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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.

Ben Whishaw

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
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 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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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 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
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
I’ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don’t understand what the hell is going on. I’ve no desire at all to go back there.
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Couple Desire Hell
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
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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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity 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 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 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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