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Ben Whishaw [1980-0] English

Rank: 101
Actor

Benjamin John "Ben" Whishaw is an English actor. He is known for his stage role as Hamlet; his roles in the television series Nathan Barley, Criminal Justice, The Hour and London Spy; and film roles including Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, I'm Not There, Bright Star, Brideshead Revisited, Cloud Atlas, The Lobster, Suffragette and The Danish Girl.

Amazing, Poetry, Sad, Technology

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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.		101
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.	Amazing	102
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.		103
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.		104
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.		105
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.		106
The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.		107
I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.	Technology	108
I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.		109
It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.		110
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.		111
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.	Poetry	112
I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?		113
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.		114
I love taking on other people's words. They are much more interesting to me than my own.		115
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.		116
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.		117
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.		118
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.		119
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.		120
I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.		121
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.		122
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.		123
I'm a fairly private person.		124
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.		125
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.		126
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.	Sad	201
I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.		202
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.		203
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.		204
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.		205
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.		206
I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.		207
I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.		208
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.		209
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.		210
I'd like to have a go at directing.		211
For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.		212
My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'		213
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.		214
I find it weird that people want to know about you.		215
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.		216
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.		217

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