I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
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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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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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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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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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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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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One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
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