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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.

Ben Whishaw

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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 think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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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Be Good Fun Real
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
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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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Dark Jobs Struggle
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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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Character Different Looks
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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Actors Character Trying
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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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Knack Littles Wizard
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
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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Couple Desire Hell
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they’re great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
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Bigs Ideas People

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