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

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
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Able Order Running
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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Careers Realised Trying
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
I’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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Hair Short Two Years
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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Able Actors Opportunity
I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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Determination House Men
It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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Father Married Wonderful
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
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role
When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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Kids Maturity Stars
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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Important Intelligent Thinking
Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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Fun Good Fun
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
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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Farce School Theatre

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

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