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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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Running Trying Wizardry
I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Luxury Mean Privilege
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

People Real Thinking
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Medicine Superpower Thinking
Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

People Successful Years
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Life Real Role
I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Children Persons Reality
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Real School Teaching
Actor 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 Sometime
Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Children Different Parents
I was never geeky about anything.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Anything Greek
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Grandfather Tanks War
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Farce School Theatre
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
Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Acting Blood Hate
Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Expression Play

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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