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.
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 would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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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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 can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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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 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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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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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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I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can’t say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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