Ben Whishaw Quotes
The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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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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A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.
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In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.
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I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. But now I'm certain it wasn't only for 'Cocoon.' It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.
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I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.
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The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
