I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
BEN WHISHAWDustin Hoffman also never does the same thing twice which is totally stimulating because you’re always getting something new from him. You never really know what he’s going to do next, so you have to be on your toes.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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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 can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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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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The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It’s amazing what people do, isn’t it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
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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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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 don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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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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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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