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Ben Whishaw

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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Country People Today
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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Painters Sculptors Stills
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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Be Good Fun Real
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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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
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
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’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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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Overcoming People Trying
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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Film Love Music Stories
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
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
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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Intention Slides Theatre
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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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Able Actors Levels

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