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Benedict Cumberbatch

I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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Better Get Hard Trying Work
There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.
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Awkward Fun Self
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
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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Ends Excited might
There are other people who don’t mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good – real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.
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People Real Thinking
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
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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Come Sadness Thinking Way
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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Expectations Mad People
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
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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Hard Privacy Thing
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
I keep myself amused and others confused
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Amused Confused Myself Other
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School

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