My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
BEN WHISHAWI’d like to have a go at directing.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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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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 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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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 used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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