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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.

Ben Whishaw

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

Criminals Flaws Justice
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
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
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 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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
BEN WHISHAW

Computer Hopeless Technology
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
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Acting Character Stories
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
BEN WHISHAW

Gone Regimes Workout
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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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 WHISHAW

Art Believe Wish

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.

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