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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.

Ben Whishaw

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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Able Actors Levels
My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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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Intention Slides Theatre
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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
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
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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Bigs Ideas People
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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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Finding Looks People Yourself
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking

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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