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Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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Kings Opposites Real
My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
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Book Dad Reading
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
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Daily Life Mundane Taken
I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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Cactus Friendly Hands
[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 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
I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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Assange Opinion Wells
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Landing Roles Surprising
Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.
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People Successful Years
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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Fall Feet Floating
I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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Always Giving Help Support Up
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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Drama Jobs School
[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
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Always Giving Personal Twists
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Actor Class Looks
All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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