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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.

Ben Whishaw

It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
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Be Good Fun Real
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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Ambition Oscars Winning
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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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Overcoming People Trying
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
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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Always New Something Stimulate Twice
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff 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
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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
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
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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

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