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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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
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Joy Looks Reading
I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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Fire Gadgets Whiskey
Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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Children Kids Only Child
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
Live a life less ordinary.
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Brain Less Ordinary
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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Drama Jobs School
I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
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Clothes Joy Late
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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Conscious People Relax Self
I was never geeky about anything.
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Anything Greek
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Actor Class Looks
The 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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Numbers People Soul
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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Enjoy People Success Support
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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