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I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

Ben Whishaw

I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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
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 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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Art Soul Thinking
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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 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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Film Love Music Stories
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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Acting Day End Past
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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Character Different Looks
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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Be Good Fun Real
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 think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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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Eye Rights Understanding
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

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