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Benedict Cumberbatch

Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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Character Expression Play
An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.
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Doctor Self Thinking
What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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Funny Ideas Knowing Things
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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Better Get Hard Trying Work
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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Humble Mirror Thinking
Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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Doctor Saving Selfish
I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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Awkward Journey Transition
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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Acting Drama School
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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Character Ice Thinking
I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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Psychopath Research Sociopath
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Actor Class Looks
It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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Enjoy People Success Support
I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
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Ambassadors Giving Voice
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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Location Sometimes Want
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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Actors Lying Shame

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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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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