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 WHISHAWWhen 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.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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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’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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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there’s so much that’s against you on a film set.
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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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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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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Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there’s pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
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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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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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