The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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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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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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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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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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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’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.
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It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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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.
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I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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