I find it weird that people want to know about you.
BEN WHISHAWI think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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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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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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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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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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 do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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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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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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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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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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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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