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" I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things. "
Ben Whishaw
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" I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play. "
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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 was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background. "
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" I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do. "
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" I'd like to have a go at directing. "
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" 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 love taking on other people's words. They are much more interesting to me than my own. "
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" I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals. "
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" I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life. "
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" The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws. "
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" 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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" The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being. "
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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 think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I'm a fairly private person. "
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" I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they? "
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" 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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" I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing. "
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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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