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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I was never geeky about anything.
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Anything Greek
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying Want
Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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Children Kids Only Child
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 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
For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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Brain Difficult World
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
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enough Kids Settled
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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Able Actors Opportunity
I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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Goodbye Kissing Years
It’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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Character Doctors Interesting
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
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
I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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Persons Pregnant
I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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Boys Girlfriend Television
I tell my wife all my secrets.
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Secret Wife

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

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