I was brought up in a world of privilege.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHDo I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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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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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
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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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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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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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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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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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