English - Actor | July 19, 1976 -
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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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.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.
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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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