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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

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
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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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Art Believe Wish
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.
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Acting Character Stories
I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World
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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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
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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Preparation Rehearsal Shooting

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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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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