I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
BEN WHISHAWI’d like to have a go at directing.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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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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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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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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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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