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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Dustin 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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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 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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.
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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 think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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