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.
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 think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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When 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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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 the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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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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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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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