The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
BEN WHISHAWFilmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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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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 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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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 think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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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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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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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