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I was brought up in a world of privilege.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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Doctor Mean Role
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Character Doctors Next
Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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Gesture Hands Swings
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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Dad Hard Mum
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff
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 struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
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
Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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Reality Sensual Strange
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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Able Actors Opportunity
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 biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Film Lessons Strange
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
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

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