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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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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Certainty Choices Life Next
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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
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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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
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
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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
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
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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 think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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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Art Believe Wish

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

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