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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

Benedict Cumberbatch

You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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Running Trying Wizardry
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Always Giving Personal Twists
I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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Avenue Fifth Traffic Walks
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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Hands Missing People
I’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.
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Doctors Email Place Strange
The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Film Lessons Strange
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
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book Reading
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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Beautiful Country Crazy
Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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Angel Mean Thinking
It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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Father Married Wonderful
Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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Children Different Parents
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
We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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Brain Gun Guy Hero
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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Jobs School Silly

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