I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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 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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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 can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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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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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 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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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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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