I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel... I sort of get very excited and fed by.
From Ben Whishaw
I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
I love taking on other people's words. They are much more interesting to me than my own.
Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
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