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If you can't fail, you can never get better.

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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
Fail
Failing
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Actor 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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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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I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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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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Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.
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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 really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, Don't punish yourself. You're going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don't live in guilt and regret.
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Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
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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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The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry.
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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 tell my wife all my secrets.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It's not a hipster affectation I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I've had the test for contact lenses, but I haven't found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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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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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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