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.
BEN WHISHAWI find it weird that people want to know about you.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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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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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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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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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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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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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 think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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