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.
BEN WHISHAWYour 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.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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.
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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 think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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.
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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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I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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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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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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