I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI 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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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
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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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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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[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.
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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.
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If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
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I want to be better at staying connected.
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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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