I find it weird that people want to know about you.
BEN WHISHAWThe 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.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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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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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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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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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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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’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 criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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