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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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Benedict Cumberbatch
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
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Film Actor
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Hammersmith
London
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
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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 think playing any iconic role when you're stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can't process that.
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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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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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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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We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it's not always that way.
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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 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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There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.
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This 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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I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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I think it's fair to say that, yeah, I'm playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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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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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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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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Sometimes when you do fight scenes you think, Oh, I'll be hit in the face, because people get carried away with their vanity and want to look too cool to care, but we were all really careful with each other.
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If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
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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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There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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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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