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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

For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
BEN WHISHAW

Anonymity Important Levels
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
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’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
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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 am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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
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
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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
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 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
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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
BEN WHISHAW

Neurasthenic Not Really Torture

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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