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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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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.
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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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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
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Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
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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.
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One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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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.
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The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.
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There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
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