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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

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
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 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
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
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.
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Acting Character Stories
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
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
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
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
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
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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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People Reaction Simplicity
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
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
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
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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
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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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

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