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.
BEN WHISHAWI find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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’d like to have a go at directing.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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I’ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don’t understand what the hell is going on. I’ve no desire at all to go back there.
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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 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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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