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Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Different Ignore Lesson 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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Hands Missing People
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Book Character Thinking
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Able Play Want
We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Fighting Reality War
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Medicine Superpower Thinking
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Monday Morning Names
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 think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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Emotional Sometimes Thinking
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Butterfly Long Obsessed
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Animal Kind Party
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enough Kids Settled
The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Numbers People Soul
It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
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Running Thinking Yoga
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Cry Laughing Musician

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