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.
BEN WHISHAWFilmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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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When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way – they make you look at the world in a different way.
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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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Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I’m trying to do.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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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I don’t think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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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’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’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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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 really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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