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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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Difficult

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" The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being. "

" I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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Ambition

" It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life. "

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

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

Ben Whishaw

Directing

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background. "

" I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play. "

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

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

Ben Whishaw

Justice

Flaws

Criminal Justice System

" 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. "

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

" My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think. "

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Think

" I'm a fairly private person. "

" 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. "