The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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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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People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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I was never geeky about anything.
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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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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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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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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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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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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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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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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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