I’d like to have a go at directing.
BEN WHISHAWThe criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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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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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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 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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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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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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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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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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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
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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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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 think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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