My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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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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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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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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It’s amazing what people do, isn’t it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
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I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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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’ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don’t understand what the hell is going on. I’ve no desire at all to go back there.
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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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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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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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