I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWriting 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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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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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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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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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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I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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