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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.

Ben Whishaw

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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
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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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
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
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 love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
BEN WHISHAW

Film Love Music Stories
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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
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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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 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

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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