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I have actual acting scars.

~Benedict Cumberbatch

Topics: Acting Actual Scars

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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

~Benedict Cumberbatch

Topics: Begging Hair Head Knees Mercy Pull Sensitive Very Way Would Wrong Wrong Way

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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

~Benedict Cumberbatch

Topics: Expectations Go Mad People Perception Please Then Trying You

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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.

~Benedict Cumberbatch

Topics: Enjoy Film First Fun Great Great Fun How Makes Received Rewarding Series Sherlock Something Thrilled Well Which You

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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.

~Benedict Cumberbatch

Topics: Able Comedy Play Want

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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

Topics: Admittedly Equally Families Fighting First First World First World War Living Our Politics Realities Same Scale Soldiers Through Time Tragic War Wars Where World World War

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'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.

~Benedict Cumberbatch

Topics: About Abuse Creating Darkness Destruction Electricity Frankenstein Gods His Idea Image Light Like Making Man Men Natural Natural Order Night Only Order Own Powers Story Them Then Through Took

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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

~Benedict Cumberbatch

Topics: Commander Desert Grandfathers My Own Operator Own Rats Second Second World War Submarine Tank War Were World World War

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Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.

~Benedict Cumberbatch

Topics: About Acting Always Blood Crappy Going Hate Say Somebody Someone Will

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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

~Benedict Cumberbatch

Topics: About Class Me Talking Way Winning

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: July 19th, 1976

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