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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 films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
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Film Love Music 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 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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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
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’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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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 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
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
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 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
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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

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

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