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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Hands Missing People
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Attractive Earth Know
I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Always Giving Help Support Up
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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Important Intelligent Thinking
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Country Grim Reaper Motorbike
I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Doctors People
I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Perception Television Views Well
[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctors Men People
The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Numbers People Soul
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Class Mean Wealth
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Real School Teaching
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Grandfather Tanks War
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 drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff

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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