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Ben Whishaw

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
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
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
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
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
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
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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 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 really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking

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