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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I want to be better at staying connected.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Connected Staying Want
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Butterfly Long Obsessed
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Acting Drama School
It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Running Thinking Yoga
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Hard Privacy Thing
I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Discipline Reading Sports
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Better Fail Failing Get
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Alive Book Reading
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
It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctor Mean Role
Lines are very difficult to learn.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Difficult Learn Lines
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
I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Goodbye Kissing Years
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 am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Hipster Poor Ridiculous
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

Joy Luck Reality

There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.

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