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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.
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 genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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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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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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I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.
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Only when Stephen Strange has his accident and everything that he's ever had in his life falls apart that he becomes pretty monstrous. It's the self-loathing rage of a wounded animal and he doesn't have a coping mechanism at all. It ties in with the discipline and the magic of this world.
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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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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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I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I learn, and I observe, but 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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[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he's very loved by people who know him.
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