I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
BEN WHISHAWI’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.
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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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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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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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 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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In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there’s so much that’s against you on a film set.
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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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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