I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI 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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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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I keep myself amused and others confused
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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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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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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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I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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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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I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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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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There are other people who don’t mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good – real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.
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