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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

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.
BEN WHISHAW

Certainty Choices Life Next
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
I’ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don’t understand what the hell is going on. I’ve no desire at all to go back there.
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Couple Desire Hell
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
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 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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People Talking Thinking
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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
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
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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
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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Eye Rights Understanding

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

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