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I was brought up in a world of privilege.

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Benedict Cumberbatch
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Hammersmith
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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
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I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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It's an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who's likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He's funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It's a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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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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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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Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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I don't call myself an expert because I've played experts. I know a little bit about very little. But it's very hard to not be drawn into saying something, especially if it has to do with the work.
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I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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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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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 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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Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things.
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There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you've got to have fun with it.
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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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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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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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I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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