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I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

Ben Whishaw

I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
BEN WHISHAW

Character Opportunity Play
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
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
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
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 don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
BEN WHISHAW

States Thinking World
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
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
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
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
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets

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