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Benedict Cumberbatch

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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Expectations Mad People
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Always Giving Personal Twists
There are other people who don’t mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good – real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.
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People Real 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.
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Actor Challenges Gymnastics
We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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Fighting Reality War
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
People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
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Hands Missing People
Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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Character Identity Strong
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
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
[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
Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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Enigma Modern World
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying Want
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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Academic Actors Doe
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Actor Class Looks
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role

I have actual acting scars.

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