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I love doing impersonations of people.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
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
I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Perception Television Views Well
[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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Actor Challenges Gymnastics
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book Reading
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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Actors Lying Shame
I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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Bigger Fantastic Thinking
I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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Character Doctors Suffering
Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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Arses Bigs Toned
It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Cynical Kind Skills
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Distance Needs People
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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Expectations Mad People
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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Farce School Theatre
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Always Giving Personal Twists
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Medicine Superpower Thinking
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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Ambassadors Giving Voice

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