I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
BEN WHISHAWWhen 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.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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 think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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 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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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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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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’d like to have a go at directing.
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I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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