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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.
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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I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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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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It still makes me giggle that I'm paid to act.
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I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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I'm not confident in social situations just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.
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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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I have actual acting scars.
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