I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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.
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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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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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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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 think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Dustin Hoffman also never does the same thing twice which is totally stimulating because you’re always getting something new from him. You never really know what he’s going to do next, so you have to be on your toes.
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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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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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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