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.
BEN WHISHAWOne 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 intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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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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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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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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