I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
BEN WHISHAWI find it weird that people want to know about you.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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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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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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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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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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One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
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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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