I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI 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.
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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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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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I keep myself amused and others confused
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I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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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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I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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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.”
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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.
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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