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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

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
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
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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Overcoming People Trying
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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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Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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
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
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 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 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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