Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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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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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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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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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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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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Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
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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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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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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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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 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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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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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.