I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
BEN WHISHAWI reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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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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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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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 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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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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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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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