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Benedict Cumberbatch

This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Jealous People Sometimes
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Awkward Fun Self
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Numbers People Soul
It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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Father Married Wonderful
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Attractive Earth Know
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Fall Feet Floating
I was brought up in a world of privilege.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Brought Privilege World
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 CUMBERBATCH

Ambassadors Giving Voice
I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Boys Girlfriend Television
I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Clothes Joy Late
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.”
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Fun Regret Teacher
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Empathy People Thinking
I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Drinking Pork Smoking
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Hair Knees Policy Sensitive
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Careers Realised Trying

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