I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
BEN WHISHAWI’d like to have a go at directing.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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 think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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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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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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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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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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’d like to have a go at directing.
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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 can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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 think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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