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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

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Benedict Cumberbatch
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Hammersmith
London
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
Mum
Commercial
Theatre
Bills
Paid
Sure
School
Make
Farce

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It still makes me giggle that I'm paid to act.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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I've gone up two suit sizes. The character I'm playing, he's strong, I can say that much. I've changed my physique a bit, so that requires eating like a foie gras goose, well beyond your appetite. Providing I don't feel too ill, I then work out two hours a day with a phenomenal trainer. It's the L.A. way.
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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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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.
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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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[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I've played. He's lost the power to love, which doesn't make him a nasty person. I just think he's closed-off.
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You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
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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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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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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.
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Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.
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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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I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas.
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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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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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