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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.

Ben Whishaw

I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
BEN WHISHAW

Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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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Always New Something Stimulate Twice
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
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
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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People Talking Thinking
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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 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
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.
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Character Different Looks
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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets

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 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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