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.
BEN WHISHAWI 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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I’ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don’t understand what the hell is going on. I’ve no desire at all to go back there.
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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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I don’t think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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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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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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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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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