I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
BEN WHISHAWI used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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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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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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