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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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Class Talking Winning
It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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Doctor Mean Role
I don’t want to miss things.
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Allow Done Missing Want
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
There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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Eye Promotion Weight
I had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
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Holiday Kids Reading
I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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Fire Gadgets Whiskey
I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.
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Book Family Friends Moments Quiet
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book Reading
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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Jobs School Silly
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Always Giving Personal Twists
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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Awkward Fun Self
If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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Able Abuse Men
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
You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it’s almost inhuman. So, that’s been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.
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Boys Play Practice
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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Fall Feet Floating

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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