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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

It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
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Be Good Fun Real
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
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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 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

Ambition Oscars Winning
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
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
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 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’ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don’t understand what the hell is going on. I’ve no desire at all to go back there.
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Couple Desire Hell
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 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
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
The thing about acting is that it’s fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what’s given to you.
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Acting Day End Past
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
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff 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
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
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 find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say
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

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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