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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.
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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There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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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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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'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You're treading on very thin ice.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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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 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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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
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It still makes me giggle that I'm paid to act.
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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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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 aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don't email saying, When are we doing next film? I'm excited to see.
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It was great. I got to hang out with him [Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins], and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.
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I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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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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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he's not afraid to go to dark places.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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