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

Ben Whishaw

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 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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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
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
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
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Be Good Fun Real
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 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
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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
The thing about acting is that it’s fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what’s given to you.
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Acting Day End Past
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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

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