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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Medicine Superpower Thinking
I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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Children Persons Reality
I had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
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Holiday Kids Reading
Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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Doctor Saving Selfish
I have actual acting scars.
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Acting Actual Scar
I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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Psychopath Research Sociopath
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
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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Distance Needs People
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Actor Class Looks
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
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
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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Academic Actors Doe
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role
It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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Glimpse Outside People Realize
Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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Gesture Hands Swings

I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.

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