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Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
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Fun Regret Teacher
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
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
I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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Character Doctors People
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
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Book Dad Reading
It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Cynical Kind Skills
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role
If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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Boards Past Trying
The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Film Lessons Strange
Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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Character Doctors Stories
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
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
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’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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Children Persons Reality
I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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Kings Opposites Real

Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.

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