For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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 can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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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 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 I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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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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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The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.
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The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It’s amazing what people do, isn’t it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good 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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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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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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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 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 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’d like to have a go at directing.
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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 think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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