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One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.

Ben Whishaw

I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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
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
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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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
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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty

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