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.
BEN WHISHAWWe 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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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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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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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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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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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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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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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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 love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
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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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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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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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