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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

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
Dustin 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.
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Always New Something Stimulate Twice
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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Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
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
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.
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Character Different Looks
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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.
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Art Believe Wish
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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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Eye Rights Understanding
I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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Overcoming People Trying
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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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Couple Desire Hell
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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Ambition Oscars Winning
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I’m trying to do.
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Actors Character Trying
I don’t think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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People Talking 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
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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

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