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.
BEN WHISHAWI 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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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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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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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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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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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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My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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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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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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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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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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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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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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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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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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For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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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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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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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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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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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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