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

Ben Whishaw

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
BEN WHISHAW

Art Soul Thinking
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
BEN WHISHAW

Knows People Want
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Certainty Choices Life Next
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Country People Today
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Able Actors Levels
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they’re great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
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Bigs Ideas People
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
BEN WHISHAW

Anonymity Important Levels
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
BEN WHISHAW

Intention Slides Theatre
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
BEN WHISHAW

Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
BEN WHISHAW

Degrees Insecurity Thinking
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Film Love Music Stories
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
BEN WHISHAW

Cat Good Life Pretty
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Eye Rights Understanding
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Dark Jobs Struggle

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

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