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I think playing any iconic role when you’re stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can’t process that.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Class Mean Wealth
Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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Bump Journey People
People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
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Hands Missing People
Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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Cry Laughing Musician
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 feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he’s dealing with such serious issues.
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Humor Issues Sense Serious
I’ve done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].
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Doctors Fighting Taken
I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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Boys Girlfriend Television
I’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
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Character Ice Thinking
The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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Different Ignore Lesson People
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Medicine Superpower Thinking
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Actor Class Looks
Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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Acting Blood Hate
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things

I think playing any iconic role when you’re stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can’t process that.

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