I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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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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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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 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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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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 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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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I’ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don’t understand what the hell is going on. I’ve no desire at all to go back there.
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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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