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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

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there’s so much that’s against you on a film set.
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Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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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Acting Day End Past
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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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People Reaction Simplicity
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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
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’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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Couple Desire Hell

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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