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Benedict Cumberbatch

I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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Drinking Pork Smoking
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Actor Class Looks
Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.
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Award Eye Fun
All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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About People Stories Talk
I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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Hipster Poor Ridiculous
It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Cynical Kind Skills
Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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Children Kids Only Child
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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Drama Jobs School
I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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Bars Play Real
I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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Better Get Hard Trying Work
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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Psychopath Research Sociopath
Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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Gesture Hands Swings
I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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Determination House Men
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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Country Grim Reaper Motorbike
I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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Tea Trying Worry
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
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Humble Mirror Thinking
When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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Kids Maturity Stars
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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Running Thinking Yoga
I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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Done Drama Periods
It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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Enjoy People Success Support
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Affection Charming More Persons
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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Fire Gadgets Whiskey
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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Careers Goal Long
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
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 seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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Lucky Regret Would

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