I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
BEN WHISHAWI am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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 used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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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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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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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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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 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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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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What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they’re great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
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