I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
BEN WHISHAWI don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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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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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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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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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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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 would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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.
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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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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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I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
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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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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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