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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.

Ben Whishaw

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
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
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
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
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
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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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Dark Jobs Struggle
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
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
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
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

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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