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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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Eye Promotion Weight
I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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Exercise Play Spy
People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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Always Knock People Want
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 had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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Goodbye Kissing Years
[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
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Certain Degrees Obsessed
Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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Bump Journey People
I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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Persons Pregnant
I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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Done Drama Periods
I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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Character Fun People
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
It’s always important to have the blessing.
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Always Blessing Important
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
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
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
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

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