I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
BEN WHISHAWI’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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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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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As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don’t see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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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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