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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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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
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
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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 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
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
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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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
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
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 can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

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