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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

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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 have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.
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I don't wear a mask, I don't have a suit. It's not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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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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I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously take a photo on their phone without asking. I feel it's cowardly and a bit pathetic. Just ask me if you really want me to have a photograph with you.
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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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You'd have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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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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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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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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It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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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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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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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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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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I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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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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I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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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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