Ben Whishaw Quotes
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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I pretty much look like an identical twin of my mom.
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Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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I'm as honest as I can be.
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If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.
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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
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As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
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We expect to be a prime in the fighter jet business for the long run. This is not a business we're getting out of at all.
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Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said, 'Americans are too clean...' I took no offense.
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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
