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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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Painters Sculptors Stills
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
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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Acting Character Stories
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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Be Good Fun Real
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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Art Soul Thinking
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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Overcoming People Trying
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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Certainty Choices Life Next
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
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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People Reaction Simplicity
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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Art Believe Wish
The thing about acting is that it’s fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what’s given to you.
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Acting Day End Past
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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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Finding Looks People Yourself

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