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I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Luxury Mean Privilege
Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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Bump Journey People
Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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Jealous People Sometime
Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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Children Kids Only Child
Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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Monday Morning Names
I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
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Clothes Joy Late
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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Home Opposite Window
The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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Enough World
I keep myself amused and others confused
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Amused Confused Myself Other
I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Done Drama Periods
I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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Bars Play Real
I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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Discipline Reading Sports
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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Class Talking Winning
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Affection Charming More Persons
I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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Character Doctors People
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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Able Actors Opportunity

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