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.
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 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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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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I find it weird that people want to know about 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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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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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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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 don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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 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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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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 can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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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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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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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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