I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
BEN WHISHAWI’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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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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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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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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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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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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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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