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

Benedict Cumberbatch

[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
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Dark Ends Talking
You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it’s almost inhuman. So, that’s been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.
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Boys Play Practice
I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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Bars Play Real
What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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Funny Ideas Knowing Things
I have actual acting scars.
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Acting Actual Scar
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Class Mean Wealth
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
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
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 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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Body Done Proportion
For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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Brain Difficult World
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book Reading
I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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Lucky Regret Would
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
All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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About People Stories Talk
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

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