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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.

Ben Whishaw

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.
BEN WHISHAW

Acting Character Stories
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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Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
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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Eye Rights Understanding
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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.
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Film Love Music Stories
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 don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking
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
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets

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’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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