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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.’

Ben Whishaw

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
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 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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Dark Jobs Struggle
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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
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
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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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 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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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

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 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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