I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
BEN WHISHAWMy intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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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 can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there’s so much that’s against you on a film set.
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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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 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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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