I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
BEN WHISHAWI’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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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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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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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 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 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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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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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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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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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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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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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’d like to have a go at directing.
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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 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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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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