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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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

Enjoy People Success Support
Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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Children Different Parents
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctor Mean Role
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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Silly Teacher Voice
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Affection Charming More Persons
I had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
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Holiday Kids Reading
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Land Oil Titles
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
Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Fun Good Fun
I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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Psychopath Research Sociopath
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
Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Doctors Stories
It’s always important to have the blessing.
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Always Blessing Important
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Grandfather Tanks War
It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Running Thinking Yoga
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School

There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.

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