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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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
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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Ambition Oscars Winning
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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
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
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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Bigs Ideas People
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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Intention Slides Theatre
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
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
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 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

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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