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- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lines are very difficult to learn.
- Actual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have actual acting scars.
- Mercy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun to film, which makes it so rewarding when something you enjoy is so well received.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- God-Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
- Grandfathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was happy as an only child, but I've always wanted to be part of a bigger family.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
- Catalogue
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf'... And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live a life less ordinary.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
- Bureaucracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
- Nov 07, 2020
I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love doing impersonations of people.
- Front
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
- Mix
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
- Privilege
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up in a world of privilege.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020