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There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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Benedict Cumberbatch
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
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I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
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I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously take a photo on their phone without asking. I feel it's cowardly and a bit pathetic. Just ask me if you really want me to have a photograph with you.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.
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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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When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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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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I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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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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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
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I have memories of clouds whisking by while sitting in the pushchair on the roof of my parents' flat. I loved it! I just loved staring at the clouds and dreaming away.
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I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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