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I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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Hipster Poor Ridiculous
I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
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Fighting Girl War
I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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Persons Pregnant
I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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Exercise Play Spy
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
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
Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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Character Identity Strong
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
People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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Always Knock People Want
When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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Kids Maturity Stars
The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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Numbers People Soul
[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
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Character Doctor Meals
As an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
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Actors Fans Stories
Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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Acting Blood Hate
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Landing Roles Surprising
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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Fall Feet Floating

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