One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
BEN WHISHAWWhat 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.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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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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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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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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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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