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Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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Painters Sculptors Stills
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
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
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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Certainty Choices Life Next
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
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World
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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Eye Rights Understanding
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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
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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Finding Looks People Yourself
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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Ambition Oscars Winning
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

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