I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
BEN WHISHAWI’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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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 that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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 think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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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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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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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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