Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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I keep myself amused and others confused
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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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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It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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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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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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Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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It’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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