Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
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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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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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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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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
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'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
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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.
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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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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.
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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.