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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

Ben Whishaw

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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Intention Slides Theatre
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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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
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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Always New Something Stimulate Twice
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
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
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
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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 being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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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Finding Looks People Yourself

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

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