Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

• I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

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• I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.

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• Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

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• Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

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• I have actual acting scars.

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• I was brought up in a world of privilege.

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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’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

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• I’m not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.

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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 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’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

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• I love doing impersonations of people.

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• I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

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• Lines are very difficult to learn.

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• I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.

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• One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can’t sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

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• My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

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• Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.

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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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Benedict Cumberbatch (22)

Birth:	19th July, 1976
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Benedict Cumberbatch grew up in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. His great-grandfather, Henry Arnold Cumberbatch CMG, was the consul general of Queen Victoria in Turkey. His grandfather, Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, was a decorated submarine officer of both World Wars, and a prominent figure of London high society.His first West End theatre performance was as George Tesman in Sir Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005.

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