I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMaybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.
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I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
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If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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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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The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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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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For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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