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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.

Ben Whishaw

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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Actors Character Trying
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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Always New Something Stimulate Twice
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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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Knack Littles Wizard
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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
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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Eye Rights Understanding
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.
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Acting Character Stories
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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking

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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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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