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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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Running Trying Wizardry
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’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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Discipline Reading Sports
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Character Doctors Next
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Always Giving Personal Twists
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
[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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Character Nasty Thinking
I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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Kings Opposites Real
I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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Hipster Poor Ridiculous
[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 try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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Better Get Hard Trying Work
There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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Eye Promotion Weight
Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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Jealous People Sometime
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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Academic Actors Doe
I’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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Hair Short Two Years

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