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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 think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
BEN WHISHAW

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.
BEN WHISHAW

Able Actors Levels
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
BEN WHISHAW

Gone Regimes Workout
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
BEN WHISHAW

Anonymity Important Levels
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
BEN WHISHAW

Intuition Stuff Thinking
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
BEN WHISHAW

Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
BEN WHISHAW

Be Good Fun Real
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Country People Today
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
BEN WHISHAW

Knack Littles Wizard
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.
BEN WHISHAW

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.’
BEN WHISHAW

Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Acting Character Stories
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Film Love Music Stories
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Actors Character Trying
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Bigs Ideas People
I’d like to have a go at directing.
BEN WHISHAW

Action Directing Go

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