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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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Ends Excited might
You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
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Able Order Running
Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.
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Care Crazy Doctor Ideal
My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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Motivation Parent Proud
It’s always important to have the blessing.
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Always Blessing Important
Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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Children Kids Only Child
Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Difficult Learn Lines
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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Silly Teacher Voice
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
I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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Emotional People Response
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
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
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Ambassadors Giving Voice
I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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Fun Important Out Work
I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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Careers Goal Long
I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
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Character Discipline Doctors
I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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Book Lovely Support
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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Enjoy Journey Others Treating
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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Cactus Friendly Hands
Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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Character Expression Play
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Character Doctors Next
Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.
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People Successful Years
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Class Mean Wealth
The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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Enough World
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying Want

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