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I think playing any iconic role when you’re stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can’t process that.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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 drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
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Crazy Fun Years
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
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Landing Roles Surprising
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Difficult Learn Lines
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Disaster Much
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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Location Sometimes Want
[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.
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Dark Ends Talking
I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.
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Book Family Friends Moments Quiet
I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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Drinking Pork Smoking
Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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Enigma Modern World
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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Class Talking Winning
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.
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Real School Teaching
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

I think playing any iconic role when you’re stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can’t process that.

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