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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Come Sadness Thinking Way
What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Funny Ideas Knowing Things
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Done Drama Periods
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff
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
Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character People Play
I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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Brought Privilege World
New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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Beautiful Country Crazy
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Dark Ends Talking
It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Running Thinking Yoga
The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Enough World
An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctor Self Thinking
There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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Coats Given Hats
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
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Crazy Fun Years
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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Careers Realised Trying

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