For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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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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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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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I don’t think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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 used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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