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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Joy Luck Reality
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
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Awkward Fun Self
It’s always important to have the blessing.
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Always Blessing Important
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enough Kids Settled
An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctor Self Thinking
I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Cactus Friendly Hands
[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Doctor Meals
Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Jealous People Sometime
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
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Ambassadors Giving Voice
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Abnormal Appetite Wells
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Missing Older Want
Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Cry Laughing Musician
[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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Doctors Men People

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