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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 Cumberbatch

I don’t want to miss things.
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Allow Done Missing Want
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
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
Those 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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Character People Play
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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Book Character Thinking
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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Location Sometimes Want
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
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Affection Charming More Persons
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
[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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Character Nasty Thinking
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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Boards Past Trying
Any irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
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Fear Irrational Thinking Worry
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
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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Attractive Earth Know

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

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