I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThat’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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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 come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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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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We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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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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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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