Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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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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People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.
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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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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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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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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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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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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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'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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Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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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 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 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.