I was never geeky about anything.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIf you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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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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Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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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.
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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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I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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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’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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An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.
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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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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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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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