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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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
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Book Dad Reading
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
My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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Motivation Parent Proud
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
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Joy Looks Reading
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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Distance Needs People
You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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Doctors Guy Strange
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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Actors Theatre Want
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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Acting Blood Hate
We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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Medicine Thinking Two
[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
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Character Doctor Meals
I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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Always Giving Help Support Up
I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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Book Lovely Support
I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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Done Drama Periods
I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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Boys Girlfriend Television

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