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I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.

Benedict Cumberbatch

One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Medicine Superpower Thinking
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
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
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Class Mean Wealth
There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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Eye Promotion Weight
I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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Conscious People Relax Self
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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Attractive Earth Know
If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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Able Abuse Men
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
I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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Always Giving Help Support Up
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
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’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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Fire Gadgets Whiskey
[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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Doctors Men People
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Abnormal Appetite Wells

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