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Ben Whishaw

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
Dustin Hoffman also never does the same thing twice which is totally stimulating because you’re always getting something new from him. You never really know what he’s going to do next, so you have to be on your toes.
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Always New Something Stimulate Twice
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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
The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It’s amazing what people do, isn’t it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
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Finding Looks People Yourself
I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can’t say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
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Art Believe Wish
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 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
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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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.
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Dark Jobs Struggle
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

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