Ben Whishaw Quotes
The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.
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I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.
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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
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I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.
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Appointment viewing is dead, and I think it is going away.
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The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.
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This cricket is like a burger, you can have it once a week but for a whole meal, you need to return to Test cricket. More than once a week, and it will give you a tummy ache.
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Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads by choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the subtle disciplines
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I started working a Saturday job at this French cafe from when I was about 14. I lived two minutes away from the cafe and went there every morning. One day, the manager asked if I wanted to work there. I'd never worked before, so thought I'd give it a go.
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Now I know you should listen to what your body is telling you.
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I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite good grades, so people assumed I would go and do a 'normal' job. My dad took me to my first audition for drama school and picked me up without anyone knowing, really.
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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
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I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.
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The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
