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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
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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Fun Important Out Work
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
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
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Affection Charming More Persons
I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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Actors Perception Television Views Well
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 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
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
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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Different Ignore Lesson People
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
[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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Afraid Dark Details
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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Hair Knees Policy Sensitive
I don’t want to miss things.
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Allow Done Missing Want
I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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Doctors Strange Thinking

It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.

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