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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

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 wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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Acting Blood Hate
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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Acting Drama School
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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Butterfly Long Obsessed
I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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Determination House Men
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Class Mean Wealth
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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Able Actors Opportunity
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
I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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Discipline Reading Sports
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
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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Come Sadness Thinking Way
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
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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Fall Feet Floating
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
I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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Ends Excited might

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.

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