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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

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 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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Art Soul Thinking
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
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
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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Always New Something Stimulate Twice
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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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Be Good Fun Real
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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff 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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Knack Littles Wizard
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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Overcoming People Trying
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 would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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Painters Sculptors Stills
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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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Acting Character Stories
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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Country People Today
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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Film Love Music Stories
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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
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 I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
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

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