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

Ben Whishaw

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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Acting Character Stories
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can’t say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
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Art Believe Wish
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 think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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
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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Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
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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Country People Today
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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Art Soul 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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture

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

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