Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHCumberbatch – 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.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I don’t want to miss things.
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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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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.
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It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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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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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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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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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 suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
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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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