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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

It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Father Married Wonderful
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
[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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actor Challenges Gymnastics
Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

People Successful Years
I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Ambassadors Giving Voice
We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Medicine Thinking Two
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Farce School Theatre
I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Emotional People Response
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Circumstances Want
[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Certain Degrees Obsessed
There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctors Effort Superhero
People always want to knock you when you’re up.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Always Knock People Want
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
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Medicine Superpower Thinking
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Joy Looks Reading
I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Doctors People

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