Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHSherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
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I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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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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I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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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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I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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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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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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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 want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.
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I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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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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