Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThose are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
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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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I don’t want to miss things.
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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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[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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We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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I want to be better at staying connected.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
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I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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