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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

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
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
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 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
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
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’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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
When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way – they make you look at the world in a different way.
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Character Different Looks
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
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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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 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
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice

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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