Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThe number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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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.
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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
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I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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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.
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Any irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
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