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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 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
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
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 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
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
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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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 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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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 that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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 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
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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
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
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 intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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

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