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Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
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Character Doctors Strange
New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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Beautiful Country Crazy
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enough Kids Settled
Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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Bump Journey People
I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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Emotional People Response
The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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Enough World
Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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Enigma Modern World
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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Cry Laughing Musician
I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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Cactus Friendly Hands
The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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Numbers People Soul
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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Body Done Proportion
I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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Lovely Overnight Success Years
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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Bigger Fantastic Thinking
I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
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Luxury Mean Privilege
Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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Doctor Saving Selfish
I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.
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Book Family Friends Moments Quiet

Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.

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