My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere 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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Fame 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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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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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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Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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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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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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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 struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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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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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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