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We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Real School Teaching
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Boards Past Trying
When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Animal Kind Party
I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Always Giving Help Support Up
I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Art Daughter Son
[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

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

Silly Teacher Voice
You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Able Order Running
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Class Talking Winning
You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Running Trying Wizardry
Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Magic Miracle Nhs
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Land Oil Titles
It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Enjoy People Success Support
Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Enigma Modern World
I was brought up in a world of privilege.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Brought Privilege World
I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Discipline Doctors

We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.

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