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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

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.
BEN WHISHAW

Certainty Choices Life Next
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Always New Something Stimulate Twice
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
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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 being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking
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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Able Actors Levels
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 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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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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