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 CUMBERBATCHWriting in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.
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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.
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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.
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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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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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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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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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