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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

Ben Whishaw

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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
My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
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 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 can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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Overcoming People Trying
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
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.
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Acting Character Stories
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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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 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
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 think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking
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
In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there’s so much that’s against you on a film set.
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Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can’t say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
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Art Believe Wish
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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

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