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[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Jobs School Silly
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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Important Intelligent Thinking
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Disaster Much
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying Want
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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Distance Needs People
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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Acting Drama School
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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Location Sometimes Want
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
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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Hair Knees Policy Sensitive
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
Live a life less ordinary.
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Brain Less Ordinary
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Class Mean Wealth
I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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Doctors Strange Thinking
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.
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Fall Feet Floating
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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Academic Actors Doe
I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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Character Fun People

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