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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.

Ben Whishaw

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.
BEN WHISHAW

Acting Character Stories
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 anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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Art Soul Thinking
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking
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
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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People Reaction Simplicity
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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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Eye Rights Understanding
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Able Actors Levels

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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