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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 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 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
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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Painters Sculptors Stills
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
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
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
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 wish that the arts were better supported, and you can’t say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
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Art Believe Wish
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say

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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