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I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Able Play Want
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Crazy Fun Years
I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Fighting Girl War
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

People Real Thinking
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Better Get Hard Trying Work
Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Bump Journey People
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Come Sadness Thinking Way
Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Angel Mean Thinking
I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Bars Play Real
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Class Talking Winning
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Circumstances Want
It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Glimpse Outside People Realize
I was never geeky about anything.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Anything Greek
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Ambition Dream Writing
I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Alternatives Dream Give Up
I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Psychopath Research Sociopath

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