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You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff
My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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Motivation Parent Proud
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
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Actors Kevin Thinking
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Class Mean Wealth
You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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Running Trying Wizardry
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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Farce School Theatre
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Missing Older Want
I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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Conscious People Relax Self
I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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Children Persons Reality
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.
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Real School Teaching
I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
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Costume Feet Party
I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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Emotional People Response
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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Academic Actors Doe
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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Ambassadors Giving Voice
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
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Crazy Fun Years

You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.

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