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

Benedict Cumberbatch

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
I have actual acting scars.
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Acting Actual Scar
I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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Ends Excited might
I tell my wife all my secrets.
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Secret Wife
I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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Careers Goal Long
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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Expectations Mad People
For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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Brain Difficult World
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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Alternatives Dream Give Up
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
[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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Actor Challenges Gymnastics
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
Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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Acting Blood Hate
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book 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 can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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Avenue Fifth Traffic Walks
That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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People Thinking Worry

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