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

Benedict Cumberbatch

Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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Fun Good Fun
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
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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Actors Lying Shame
People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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Always Knock People Want
When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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Animal Kind Party
Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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Children Kids Only Child
It’s always important to have the blessing.
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Always Blessing Important
Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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Cry Laughing Musician
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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Acting Drama School
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Abnormal Appetite Wells
I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
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Fighting Girl War
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
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
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Affection Charming More Persons
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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Butterfly Long Obsessed
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
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
I tell my wife all my secrets.
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Secret Wife
I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
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Clothes Joy Late
I’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.
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Doctors Email Place Strange
Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.
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Care Crazy Doctor Ideal
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
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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Careers Realised Trying
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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Enjoy Journey
I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
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Costume Feet Party
I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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Lovely Overnight Success Years
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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Book Character Thinking

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