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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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Boys Girlfriend Television
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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Hipster Poor Ridiculous
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
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
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
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
I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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Psychopath Research Sociopath
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
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Crazy Fun Years
I’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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Hair Short Two Years
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Character Doctors Next
I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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Book Lovely Support
I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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Fun Important Out Work
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Missing Older Want
I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
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Character Doctors Strange

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