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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

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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
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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Actors Character Trying
I always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished… it is not as if you can look back and think: ah… I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be.
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Dark Jobs Struggle
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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Finding Looks People Yourself
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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People Reaction Simplicity
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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Bigs Ideas People
I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World
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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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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Character Different Looks
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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
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
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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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Acting Day End Past

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

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