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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 am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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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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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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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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[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
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