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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.
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 think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own - they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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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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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 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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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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I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
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Actor 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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I have actual acting scars.
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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 think playing any iconic role when you're stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can't process that.
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Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.
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I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far.
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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he's not afraid to go to dark places.
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I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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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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