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.
BEN WHISHAWI don’t think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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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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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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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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 used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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I don’t think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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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 think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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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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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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