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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

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
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
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Challenges Comfort Fun
I had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Holiday Kids Reading
I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Fun Regret Teacher
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Distance Needs People
I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Clothes Joy Late
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Alive Book Reading
I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Book Lovely Support
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 think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctors Strange Thinking
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

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

Grandfather Tanks War
I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Better Get Hard Trying Work
I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Doctors Strange
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 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.

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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.

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