I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
BEN WHISHAWI 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 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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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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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 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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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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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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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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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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