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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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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
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
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’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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 would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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Painters Sculptors Stills
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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 think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking

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

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