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

Ben Whishaw

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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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.
BEN WHISHAW

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
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
BEN WHISHAW

Degrees Insecurity Thinking
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
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
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Country People Today
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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Intention Slides Theatre
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Art Believe Wish
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice

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