I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHFame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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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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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
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You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
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We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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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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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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