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

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Benedict Cumberbatch
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Stage Actor
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Hammersmith
London
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
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If you can't fail, you can never get better.
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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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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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What's not to look forward to? It's like all the actors in all of the films. It's difficult to get Martin Freeman and I in a room together. Imagine what it's like to get myself, Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., Elizabeth Olsen... these extraordinary actors who all have careers outside the Marvel Universe.
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I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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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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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.
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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've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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Honestly, it's very satisfying, and I'm very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been... It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying now.
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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it's not always that way.
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I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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