I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
BEN WHISHAWMy intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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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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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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 don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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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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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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