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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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It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.
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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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One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.
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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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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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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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There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment. By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down.
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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If you can't fail, you can never get better.
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When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.
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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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There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.
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I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You're treading on very thin ice.
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I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me to judge the man. I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I was portraying him a certain way, but we were always open to the fact that this was an interpretation, not any kind of exact evidence of who the man was.
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This 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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[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.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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