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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. "

Ben Whishaw

Sad

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

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

" I love taking on other people's words. They are much more interesting to me than my own. "

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" I'd like to have a go at directing. "

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" I'm a fairly private person. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "