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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

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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Country People Today
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
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
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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People Reaction Simplicity
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they’re great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
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Bigs Ideas People
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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Art Soul Thinking
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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.
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Dark Jobs Struggle
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 think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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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Intention Slides Theatre
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want

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