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.
BEN WHISHAWI’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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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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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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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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.
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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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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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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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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 think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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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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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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