Ben Whishaw Quotes

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

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• I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

  

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• I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

  

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• I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

  

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• At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

  

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• I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

  

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• Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

  

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• It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

  

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• I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.

  

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• There's just no quiet in Vegas.

  

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• I think I've been a very good student of all aspects of being in Congress. I think I'm always working hard to get an 'A.'

  

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• Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.

  

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• The general fellowship of our human situation has been rendered even more dubious than before, inasmuch as, though the old ties of caste have been loosened, a new restriction of the individual to some prescribed status in society is manifest. Less than ever, perhaps, is it possible for a man to transcend the limitations imposed by his social origins.

  

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• My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.

  

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• I'm a really bad twerker - I still haven't figured out how to do it. I actually hurt my back one day. I woke up the next morning, and my back was completely tweaked out... from twerking.

  

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• My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.

  

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• 'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is the same.

  

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• You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.

  

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• I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

  

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

  

  Ben Whishaw