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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

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 was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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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Acting Day End Past
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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
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
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
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’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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 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
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Anything Hard Interesting Say

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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