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Benedict Cumberbatch

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Drag Needs Stuff
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Real School Teaching
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Theatre Want
I keep myself amused and others confused
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Amused Confused Myself Other
[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Dark Ends Talking
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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Drama Jobs School
I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Empathy People Thinking
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actor Class Looks
I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Avenue Fifth Traffic Walks
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
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Silly Teacher Voice
[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
I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctors Strange 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
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
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Fire Gadgets Whiskey

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