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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.

Ben Whishaw

I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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
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
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they’re great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
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Bigs Ideas People
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
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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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Couple Desire Hell
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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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
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 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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