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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

One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Best Meritocracy Things
I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
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Luxury Mean Privilege
I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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Lovely Overnight Success Years
If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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Boards Past Trying
I keep myself amused and others confused
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Amused Confused Myself Other
I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he’s dealing with such serious issues.
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Humor Issues Sense Serious
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Always Giving Personal Twists
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 feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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Actors Perception Television Views Well
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Cynical Kind Skills
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Class Mean Wealth
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Disaster Much
There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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Doctors Effort Superhero
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 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
It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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Doctor Mean Role
[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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Doctors Men People
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
Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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Enigma Modern World
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
You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
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Able Order Running
I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
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Costume Feet Party
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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Challenges Comfort Fun
I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
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Fighting Girl War
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
I tell my wife all my secrets.
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Secret Wife

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