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My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have actual acting scars.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Acting Actual Scar
Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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Enigma Modern World
I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Drinking Pork Smoking
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
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Missing Older Want
I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Children Persons Reality
I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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Brought Privilege World
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Monday Morning Names
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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Location Sometimes Want
It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Cynical Kind Skills
I’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Ice Thinking
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Bars Play Real
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
Live a life less ordinary.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Brain Less Ordinary
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enough Kids Settled
There are other people who don’t mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good – real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

People Real Thinking

My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.

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My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.

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