There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one … - Benedict Cumberbatch

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Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.

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Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.

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

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