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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.

Ben Whishaw

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
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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 have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It’s not about that for me.
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Ambition Oscars Winning
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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
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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Always New Something Stimulate Twice
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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they’re great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
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Bigs Ideas People
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
The thing about acting is that it’s fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what’s given to you.
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Acting Day End Past
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories

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