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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

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
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Intention Slides Theatre
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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
When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way – they make you look at the world in a different way.
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Character Different Looks
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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.
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Actors Character Trying
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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Knack Littles Wizard
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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
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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty

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