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

Benedict Cumberbatch

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

Actors Best Meritocracy Things
[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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Actor Challenges Gymnastics
Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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Enigma Modern World
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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Important Intelligent Thinking
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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Arses Bigs Toned
Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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Fun Good Fun
I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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Better Get Hard Trying Work
I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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Character Doctors People
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying Want
I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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Emotional Sometimes Thinking
The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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Numbers People Soul
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
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Crazy Fun Years
Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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Children Kids Only Child
That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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People Thinking Worry
You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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Made Ordinary Want World

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