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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

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 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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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
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 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 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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