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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

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 the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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Art Soul Thinking
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
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
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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Able Actors Levels
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 always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished… it is not as if you can look back and think: ah… I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be.
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Dark Jobs Struggle
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
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
Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there’s pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
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Country People Today
I don’t think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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People Talking Thinking
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

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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