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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

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.
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Country People Today
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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they’re great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
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Bigs Ideas People
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
When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I’d be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn’t. I didn’t get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I’d better train and then the parts would come.
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Able Actors Levels
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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Be Good Fun Real
I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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Overcoming People Trying
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
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
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 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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