I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
BEN WHISHAWMy intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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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The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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’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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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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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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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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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 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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As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don’t see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.
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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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