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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

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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Location Sometimes Want
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Joy Looks Reading
Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Monday Morning Names
All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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About People Stories Talk
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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Kids Maturity Stars
It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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Father Married Wonderful
I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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Emotional People Response
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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Enjoy Journey
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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Country Grim Reaper Motorbike
I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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Book Lovely Support
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
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Dark Ends Talking
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Missing Older Want
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
Live a life less ordinary.
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Brain Less Ordinary

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

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