I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
BEN WHISHAWI am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
BEN WHISHAWI do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
BEN WHISHAWKeats 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 WHISHAWI’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
BEN WHISHAWWhen 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 WHISHAWThe thing about acting is that it’s fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what’s given to you.
BEN WHISHAWI’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
BEN WHISHAWI used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
BEN WHISHAWI 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.
BEN WHISHAWAs 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 WHISHAWMy intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
BEN WHISHAWMy favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
BEN WHISHAWI think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
BEN WHISHAWFilmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
BEN WHISHAWI’d like to have a go at directing.
BEN WHISHAWI would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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