I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
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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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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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Mean
I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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Alternatives
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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Sadness Way
I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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Avenue Fifth Traffic Walks
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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Expression
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Abnormal Appetite Wells
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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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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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 Swings
I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.

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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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Awkward Transition
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
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Gadgets Whiskey
I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.

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I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
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Proportion
Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.

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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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Saving
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.

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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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Actors
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!

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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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Window

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

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