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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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Benedict Cumberbatch
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
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There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.
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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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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
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There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.
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I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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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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Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It's an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It's great. Yeah, I'm excited.
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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 really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, Don't punish yourself. You're going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don't live in guilt and regret.
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I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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There are other people who don't mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good - real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
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I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own - they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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