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I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Drag Needs Stuff
I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Always Giving Help Support Up
[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Certain Degrees Obsessed
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Academic Actors Doe
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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Enjoy Journey Others Treating
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
For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Brain Difficult World
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Theatre Want
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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Hair Knees Policy Sensitive
I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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Actors Perception Television Views Well
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Doctor Meals
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
I love doing impersonations of people.
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Impersonation Love People
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Affection Charming More Persons
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Country Grim Reaper Motorbike

I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.

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I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.

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