I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
BEN WHISHAWI find it weird that people want to know about you.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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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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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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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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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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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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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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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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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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