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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.

Ben Whishaw

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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Art Believe Wish
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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 think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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
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
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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Finding Looks People Yourself
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I’m trying to do.
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Actors Character Trying
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
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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 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
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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Character Different Looks
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture

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 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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