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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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Reality Sensual Strange
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
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
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
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
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
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role
Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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Angel Mean Thinking
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 tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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Tea Trying Worry
Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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Monday Morning Names
I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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Psychopath Research Sociopath
Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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Cry Laughing Musician
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
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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Enjoy Journey

My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.

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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.

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