Top 47 Ben Whishaw Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. I'd like to have a go at directing.

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#4. I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

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#5. I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

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#6. 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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#7. I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

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#8. 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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#9. The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

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#10. I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

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#11. 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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#12. I'm a fairly private person.

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#13. I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. I love taking on other people's words. They are much more interesting to me than my own.

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#19. 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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#20. The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe 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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#21. 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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#22. I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

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#23. 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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#24. I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.

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

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#26. 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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#27. I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

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#28. I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

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#29. I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

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#37. I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

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#38. 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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#39. I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

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

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

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

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

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#45. 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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#46. My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

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

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