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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Come Sadness Thinking Way
Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Bump Journey People
Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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Monday Morning Names
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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Hard Privacy Thing
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Always Giving Personal Twists
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Lying Shame
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff
Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Acting Blood Hate
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enough Kids Settled
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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Important Intelligent Thinking
I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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Discipline Reading Sports
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book Reading
It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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Glimpse Outside People Realize
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Medicine Superpower Thinking
I keep myself amused and others confused
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Amused Confused Myself Other
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Joy Looks Reading

I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.

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