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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
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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Jobs School Silly
What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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Funny Ideas Knowing Things
I don’t want to miss things.
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Allow Done Missing Want
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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People Thinking Worry
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 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
Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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Character Identity Strong
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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Brain Gun Guy Hero
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
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
Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.
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Ambition Dream Writing
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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Class Talking Winning
We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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Fighting Reality War
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Difficult Learn Lines

It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.

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