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

Ben Whishaw

I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking
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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Able Actors Levels
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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Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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 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 don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World
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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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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Eye Rights Understanding
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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Always New Something Stimulate Twice

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