I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
BEN WHISHAWWhen 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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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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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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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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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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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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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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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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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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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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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