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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

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 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.
BEN WHISHAW

Dark Jobs Struggle
I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
BEN WHISHAW

Overcoming People Trying
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
BEN WHISHAW

Sides Two Typical
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
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
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
BEN WHISHAW

Intention Slides Theatre
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 think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
BEN WHISHAW

Cast Lot Thin Thinking
I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
BEN WHISHAW

States Thinking World
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
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
BEN WHISHAW

Knows People Want
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.
BEN WHISHAW

Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
BEN WHISHAW

Gone Regimes Workout
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
BEN WHISHAW

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

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