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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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Book Reading Source
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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Come Sadness Thinking Way
This 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 Sometimes
You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
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Able Order Running
I’ve done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].
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Doctors Fighting Taken
I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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Exercise Play Spy
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
Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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Fun Good Fun
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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Medicine Thinking Two
I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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Empathy People Thinking
[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 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 keep myself amused and others confused
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Amused Confused Myself Other
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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Enjoy Journey
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
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

New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.

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