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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.

Ben Whishaw

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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Art Believe Wish
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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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Certainty Choices Life Next
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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Able Actors Levels
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
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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Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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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Overcoming People Trying
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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Acting Day End Past
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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Art Soul Thinking
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking

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