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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

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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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.
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There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.
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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'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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For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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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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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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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 want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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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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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
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When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.
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Laughing and crying are really similar - what happens to your body. It's a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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