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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

Ben Whishaw

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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
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
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
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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Character Different Looks
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.
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Certainty Choices Life Next
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
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

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