I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
BEN WHISHAWI find it weird that people want to know about you.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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 don’t think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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 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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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’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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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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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there’s so much that’s against you on a film set.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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 always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished… it is not as if you can look back and think: ah… I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be.
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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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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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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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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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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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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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’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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