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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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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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One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.
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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying.
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We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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Sometimes when you do fight scenes you think, Oh, I'll be hit in the face, because people get carried away with their vanity and want to look too cool to care, but we were all really careful with each other.
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I'm excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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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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As an actor, to be part of that story's [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I've enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I'm getting to have a go myself.
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The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.
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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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[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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[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell you I'm quite the opposite in real life. In fact I'm a f**king fantastic lover.
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