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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

For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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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People Talking Thinking
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
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
I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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Overcoming People Trying
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
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 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
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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical

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