Ben Whishaw Quotes

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Ben Whishaw

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 14, 1980

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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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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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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I'd like to have a go at directing.

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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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I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

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For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

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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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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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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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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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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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I find it weird that people want to know about you.

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I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

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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.

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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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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 reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

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