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I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.
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I tell my wife all my secrets.
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You'd have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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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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Honestly, it's very satisfying, and I'm very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been... It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying now.
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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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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 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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I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun to film, which makes it so rewarding when something you enjoy is so well received.
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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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For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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I'm excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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