It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
BEN WHISHAWI don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
More Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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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’d like to have a go at directing.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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 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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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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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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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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