Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
BEN WHISHAWI find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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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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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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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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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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I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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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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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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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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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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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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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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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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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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I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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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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