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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More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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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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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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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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I love doing impersonations of people.
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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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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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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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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I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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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.
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Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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I keep myself amused and others confused
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I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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[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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The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.
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I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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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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Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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