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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

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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 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
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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
When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way – they make you look at the world in a different way.
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Character Different Looks
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
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 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 criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity 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’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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 think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes 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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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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Couple Desire Hell
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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
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 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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