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 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.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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.
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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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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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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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 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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Dustin Hoffman also never does the same thing twice which is totally stimulating because you’re always getting something new from him. You never really know what he’s going to do next, so you have to be on your toes.
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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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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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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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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