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Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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 try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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I'm aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don't email saying, When are we doing next film? I'm excited to see.
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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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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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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'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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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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I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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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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Kevin Feige said to me: I don't think we've ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally. I'll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
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I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I learn, and I observe, but 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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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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[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.
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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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I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he's still saving lives.
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