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.
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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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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 don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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I’ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don’t understand what the hell is going on. I’ve no desire at all to go back there.
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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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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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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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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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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