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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.

Ben Whishaw

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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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Knack Littles Wizard
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World
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
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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People Talking Thinking
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I’m trying to do.
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Actors Character Trying
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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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Character Different Looks
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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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Film Love Music Stories
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
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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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Country People Today
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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Be Good Fun Real

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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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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