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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.

Ben Whishaw

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
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
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
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 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 find it weird that people want to know about you.
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Knows People Want
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
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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
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
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’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’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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

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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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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