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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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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
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
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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Finding Looks People Yourself
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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Ambition Oscars Winning
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 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
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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 don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World
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
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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Eye Rights Understanding
I’ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don’t understand what the hell is going on. I’ve no desire at all to go back there.
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Couple Desire Hell
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.
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Acting Day End Past
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 think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff 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 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
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 would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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Painters Sculptors Stills
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.
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Acting Character Stories
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels

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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