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We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

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.
BEN WHISHAW

Couple Desire Hell
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Eye Rights Understanding
My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
BEN WHISHAW

Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
BEN WHISHAW

Overcoming People Trying
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
BEN WHISHAW

Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Character Different Looks
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
BEN WHISHAW

Intention Slides Theatre
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
BEN WHISHAW

Knack Littles Wizard
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
BEN WHISHAW

Anything Hard Interesting Say
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Dark Jobs Struggle
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
BEN WHISHAW

Criminals Flaws Justice
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Finding Looks People Yourself
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
BEN WHISHAW

Gone Regimes Workout
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
BEN WHISHAW

Background Children Shy
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Acting Day End Past
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
BEN WHISHAW

Character Opportunity Play

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

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We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

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