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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

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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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
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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
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 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 think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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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Film Love Music Stories
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical

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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