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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Numbers People Soul
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Boys Play Practice
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Careers Realised Trying
It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctor Lesson Thinking
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
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Abnormal Appetite Wells
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Giggle Paid Stills
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
I love doing impersonations of people.
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Impersonation Love People
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Medicine Thinking Two
I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Doctors People
We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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Conversation Hang People
I’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Ice Thinking
Live a life less ordinary.
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Brain Less Ordinary
Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Magic Miracle Nhs
Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Arses Bigs Toned

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