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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

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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

Topics: Across Come Complexity Other Our People Reactions Refreshing Simplicity Someone Who You

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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

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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

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I find it weird that people want to know about you.

~Ben Whishaw

Topics: About Find Know People Want Weird You

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I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

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I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

~Ben Whishaw

Topics: Art Being Good Moved Person Piece Really Sensation Something Soul Think I Think

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

~Ben Whishaw

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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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: October 14th, 1980

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