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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.

Ben Whishaw

It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
BEN WHISHAW

Be Good Fun Real
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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 that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
BEN WHISHAW

Rehearsal Sometimes 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
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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Knack Littles Wizard
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff 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.
BEN WHISHAW

Finding Looks People Yourself
I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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Overcoming People Trying
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
BEN WHISHAW

Art Soul 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’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
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Eye Rights Understanding
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Couple Desire Hell
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say

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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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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