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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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Enjoy Journey
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
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
[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
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Missing Older Want
I tell my wife all my secrets.
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Secret Wife
Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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Jealous People Sometime
[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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Doctors Hell Strange
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.
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Doctor Self Thinking
As an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
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Actors Fans Stories
I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
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Body Done Proportion
There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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Doctors Effort Superhero
I don’t want to miss things.
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Allow Done Missing Want
When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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Kids Maturity Stars
Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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Character Expression Play

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