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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I think playing any iconic role when you’re stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can’t process that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

People Shoes Thinking
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctor Self Thinking
[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actor Challenges Gymnastics
[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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Doctors Hell Strange
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
It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Joy Luck Reality
People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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Always Knock People Want
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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Class Talking Winning
I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Conscious People Relax Self
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Getting Missing Older Want
Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Care Crazy Doctor Ideal
You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Able Order Running
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Expectations Mad People
I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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Alternatives Dream Give Up
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Affection Charming More Persons
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Acting Drama School

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