I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
BEN WHISHAWMy favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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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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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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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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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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I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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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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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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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.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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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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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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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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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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