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I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.

Ben Whishaw

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
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
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
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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Ambition Oscars Winning
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
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
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
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 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
I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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 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
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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 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

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