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

Knows People Want
I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
BEN WHISHAW

Film Love Music Stories
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

Dark Jobs Struggle
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
BEN WHISHAW

Intuition Stuff Thinking
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
BEN WHISHAW

Lovely Something Stopped Streets
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.
BEN WHISHAW

People Reaction Simplicity
In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there’s so much that’s against you on a film set.
BEN WHISHAW

Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Certainty Choices Life Next
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
BEN WHISHAW

Painters Sculptors Stills
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
It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
BEN WHISHAW

Be Good Fun Real
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
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
BEN WHISHAW

Computer Hopeless Technology
My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
BEN WHISHAW

Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
The 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 WHISHAW

Acting Day End Past

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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