Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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