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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 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

Acting Day End Past
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
BEN WHISHAW

Gone Regimes Workout
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature 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
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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there’s so much that’s against you on a film set.
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Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
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
I always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished… it is not as if you can look back and think: ah… I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be.
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Dark Jobs Struggle
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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 would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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Painters Sculptors Stills
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
BEN WHISHAW

Degrees Insecurity Thinking

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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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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