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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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Hard Privacy Thing
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Medicine Superpower Thinking
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
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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Come Sadness Thinking Way
The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Film Lessons Strange
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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Made Ordinary Want World
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role
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.
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Art Daughter Son
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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Actors Lying Shame
We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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Conversation Hang People
For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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Brain Difficult World
You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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Doctors Guy Strange
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
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Character Doctors Strange
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
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Joy Looks Reading

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