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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

I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
BEN WHISHAW

Character Opportunity Play
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
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
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 used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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Knack Littles Wizard
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
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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Acting Character Stories
The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It’s amazing what people do, isn’t it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
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Finding Looks People Yourself
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 don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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
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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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 would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.

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