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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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
BEN WHISHAW

Computer Hopeless Technology
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.
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Certainty Choices Life Next
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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Art Soul Thinking
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 think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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

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

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