Ben Whishaw Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Ben Whishaw

  Character, Different, Looks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ben Whishaw

  Thinking, Intuition, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Ben Whishaw

  Stories, Music Love, Film

  "Interview: Actor Ben Whishaw on 'Cloud Atlas' + Playing Q in 'Skyfall'". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. October 31, 2012.

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• Dustin Hoffman also never does the same thing twice which is totally stimulating because you're always getting something new from him. You never really know what he's going to do next, so you have to be on your toes.

  Ben Whishaw

  Something New

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Ben Whishaw

  Important, Levels, Anonymity

  "Ben Whishaw: impish star steals the show, even from James Bond" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2015.

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

  Ben Whishaw

  Thinking, Rehearsal, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.'

  Ben Whishaw

  Russia, Drs, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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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.

  Ben Whishaw

  Character, Acting, Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd like to have a go at directing.

  Ben Whishaw

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Ben Whishaw

  Past, The End Of The Day, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ben Whishaw

  Workout, Gone, Regimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Ben Whishaw

  People, Simplicity, Reactions

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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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.

  Ben Whishaw

  Ambition, Winning, Oscars

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Ben Whishaw

  Actors, Levels, Able

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ben Whishaw

  Thinking, Casts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Country, People, Today

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ben Whishaw

  Character, Opportunity, Play

  "Interview: Actor Ben Whishaw on 'Cloud Atlas' + Playing Q in 'Skyfall'". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. October 31, 2012.

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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.

  Ben Whishaw

  Preparation, Shooting, Rehearsal

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Ben Whishaw

  Ideas, People, Bigs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ben Whishaw

  Children, Shy, Backgrounds

  "Ben Whishaw on his new role as Richard II". Interview with John Preston, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 30, 2012.

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

  Ben Whishaw

  Thinking, Insecurity, Degrees

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ben Whishaw

  Thinking, World, States

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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