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Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Joy Luck Reality
I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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Bars Play Real
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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Home Opposite Window
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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Hard Privacy Thing
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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Jobs School Silly
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book Reading
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
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
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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Grandfather Tanks War
I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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Always Giving Help Support Up
[ 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’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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Book Reading Source
It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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Glimpse Outside People Realize
I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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Psychopath Research Sociopath
It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
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Doctor Lesson Thinking
It’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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