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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

Ben Whishaw

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
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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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Art Soul Thinking
When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I’d be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn’t. I didn’t get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I’d better train and then the parts would come.
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Able Actors Levels
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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Dark Jobs Struggle
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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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Film Love Music Stories
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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
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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Always New Something Stimulate Twice
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

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