I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
BEN WHISHAWOne 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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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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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don’t see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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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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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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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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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way – they make you look at the world in a different way.
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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