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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

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
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 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 wish that the arts were better supported, and you can’t say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
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Art Believe Wish
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
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking
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
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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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

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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