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Ben Whishaw

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.
BEN WHISHAW

Able Actors Levels
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Eye Rights Understanding
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 I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
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
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
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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Certainty Choices Life Next
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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Acting Day End Past
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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Always New Something Stimulate Twice
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’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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Couple Desire Hell
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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Knack Littles Wizard
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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People Reaction Simplicity
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 think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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Art Soul Thinking

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