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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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Location Sometimes Want
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
I keep myself amused and others confused
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Amused Confused Myself Other
I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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Persons Pregnant
Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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Character Identity Strong
I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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Art Daughter Son
Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.
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Ambition Dream Writing
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Always Giving Personal Twists
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 have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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Emotional People Response
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
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Daily Life Mundane Taken
[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
Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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Character Doctors Stories
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
Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.
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People Successful Years
Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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Monday Morning Names

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