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It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Lovely Overnight Success Years
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Book Lovely Support
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Theatre Want
I have actual acting scars.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Acting Actual Scar
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Boards Past Trying
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Land Oil Titles
You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Able Order Running
I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Art Daughter Son
I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Bigger Fantastic Thinking
There’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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Eye Promotion Weight
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Drag Needs Stuff
An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctor Self Thinking
I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Cactus Friendly Hands
[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Nasty Thinking
You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctors Guy Strange
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Silly Teacher Voice

It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

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It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

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