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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Class Mean Wealth
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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Come Sadness Thinking Way
I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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Done Drama Periods
[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
[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
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Certain Degrees Obsessed
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’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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Exercise Play Spy
What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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Funny Ideas Knowing Things
You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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Made Ordinary Want World
[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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Character Nasty Thinking
It’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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Character Doctors Interesting
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
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Always Giving Personal Twists
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book Reading
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
Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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Character Expression Play

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