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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

Ben Whishaw

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
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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Knack Littles Wizard
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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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Intention Slides Theatre
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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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Able Actors Levels
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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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Eye Rights Understanding
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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Film Love Music Stories
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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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People Talking Thinking
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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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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Painters Sculptors Stills

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

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