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Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, CBE (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor who has performed in film, television, theatre and radio. Cumberbatch graduated from the University of Manchester and continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, obtaining a Master of Arts in Classical Acting. He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in Shakespearean productions and made his West End debut in Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005. Since then he has starred in the Royal National Theatre productions After the Dance (2010) and Frankenstein (2011). In 2015, he played William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre.

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I think there is some clear explanation of that within this film [Doctor Strange], but potentially further down the line. . . for more of that to come out as well.

Doctors, Line, Lines, Potentially, Strange, Thinking

When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.

Coming, Horseman, Horsemen, Instruction, Telepathy, Tell

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.

Thinking, Doctors, Self, Inflated, Think, Bafflement

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.

Come, Iconic, People, Shoes, Thinking

I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.

Definitely, Driven, Lived, Lucky, Regret, Would Be

I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own - they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.

Desperate, Empathy, Enemy, Humor, People, Thinking

I just want to bring people in a little bit to the idea of sitting down on a Sunday three consecutive weeks and having that water cooler moment that really was a sort of a national sensation in the U. K. , 'cause it's kind of fun.

Fun, Having, Ideas, Sort, Sunday, Weeks

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.

Faces, Film, Hang, Martin, Playing, Sitting

I think I'm a very good driver. Apparently, the cause of road rage - as with most anger - is some kind of superiority complex, which, god knows, cars foster.

Car, Cars, Kind, Knows, Superiority, Thinking

I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.

Disaster, Talk, Too Much

I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.

Chekhov, Comic, Dickens, Holiday, Kids, Reading

People always want to knock you when you're up.

Knock, People, Want

We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.

Brains, Gun, Guy, Hero, Unlikely

I'd love to meet Julian [Assange], and time permitting, and his will permitting, I'm sure it will happen at some point. Even though he's been very critical of the film [The Fifth Estate], he's been very polite about me and my work, and I feel the same way about him.

Assange, Critical, Film, Meet, Way

I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.

Medicine, Superpower, Superpowers, Think, Thinking

'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.

Back, Catalogue, Fans, Gone, Intelligent, Worry

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.

Fighting, Reality, Scale, War

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.

Character, Doctors, Interesting, Painful, Violently

I'm not one for doing the children's party version: "Hi, I'm a character in a movie and now I'm in reality!" I was doing the last shot of the film before reshoots outside their shop. I was starting my run into the frame and I thought, "You are literally ending where this began. The loop of serendipity's too much to not go in and acknowledge it. " I just wanted to see the look on their faces.

Children, Look, Movie, Party, Run, Running

[Role of Dr. Strange] gives me an excuse as an actor to be learning with my character, which is something you can do authentically - I'm not a martial arts expert, I'm certainly no sorcerer, so all these things, the movement of the body, the physicality, the changes he goes through mentally and physically, obviously we're not shooting in sequence, but it's a great part.

Art, Authentically, Character, Giving, Learning, Sorcerer

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