My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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 think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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 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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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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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 don’t have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It’s not about that for me.
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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 being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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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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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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