Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
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As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
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The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.
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I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.
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I'm quite cautious in most areas of my life, but I'm always happy to gamble when it comes to acting. I'm not frightened of falling on my face.
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A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
