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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

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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
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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Actors Character Trying
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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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Be Good Fun Real
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
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
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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
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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Character Different Looks
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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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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Certainty Choices Life Next

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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