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There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Disaster Much
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 never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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Butterfly Long Obsessed
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
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
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’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
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Abnormal Appetite Wells
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Affection Charming More Persons
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
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
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
It’s always important to have the blessing.
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Always Blessing Important
I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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Hipster Poor Ridiculous
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Landing Roles Surprising
[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

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