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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

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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Dad Hard Mum
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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Come Sadness Thinking Way
You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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Made Ordinary Want World
I don’t want to miss things.
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Allow Done Missing Want
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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Country Grim Reaper Motorbike
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
Live a life less ordinary.
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Brain Less Ordinary
[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.
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Certain Degrees Obsessed
I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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Done Drama Periods
I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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Children Persons Reality
[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
Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.
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Award Eye Fun
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
I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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Character Doctors Suffering
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying Want
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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Drama Jobs School

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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