It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
BEN WHISHAWThe 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.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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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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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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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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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.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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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’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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