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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.

Ben Whishaw

I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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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Ambition Oscars Winning
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
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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 wish that the arts were better supported, and you can’t say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
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Art Believe Wish
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
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World
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 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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Dark Jobs Struggle
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
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way – they make you look at the world in a different way.
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Character Different Looks

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