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I was brought up in a world of privilege.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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Different Ignore Lesson People
It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
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Doctor Lesson Thinking
Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Difficult Learn Lines
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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Actors Theatre Want
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
I’ve done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].
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Doctors Fighting Taken
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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Expectations Mad People
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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Enjoy Journey
I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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Assange Opinion Wells
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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Farce School Theatre
Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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Fun Good Fun
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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Home Opposite Window
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
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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Drama Jobs School
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
I have actual acting scars.
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Acting Actual Scar

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

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