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It still makes me giggle that I'm paid to act.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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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
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
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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'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.
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I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
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Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he's very loved by people who know him.
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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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I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, I want to be adored. It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.
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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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Only when Stephen Strange has his accident and everything that he's ever had in his life falls apart that he becomes pretty monstrous. It's the self-loathing rage of a wounded animal and he doesn't have a coping mechanism at all. It ties in with the discipline and the magic of this world.
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Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things.
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I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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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 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 got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. 'I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on... ' And I've got blinds in my flat!
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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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.
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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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