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.
BEN WHISHAWYour 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.
BEN WHISHAWThe criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
BEN WHISHAWOne of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
BEN WHISHAWI love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
BEN WHISHAWI’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
BEN WHISHAWDustin 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.
BEN WHISHAWI think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
BEN WHISHAWI 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 WHISHAWFor me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
BEN WHISHAWMy favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
BEN WHISHAWI used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
BEN WHISHAWThe 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.
BEN WHISHAWI think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
BEN WHISHAWI’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
BEN WHISHAWI 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.
BEN WHISHAWI find it weird that people want to know about you.
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