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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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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Painters Sculptors Stills
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking
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
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
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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
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
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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Able Actors Levels
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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Art Soul Thinking
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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
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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Finding Looks People Yourself
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 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 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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