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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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Boys Girlfriend Television
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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Distance Needs People
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
That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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People Thinking Worry
Live a life less ordinary.
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Brain Less Ordinary
I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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Character Doctors Suffering
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Affection Charming More Persons
I keep myself amused and others confused
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Amused Confused Myself Other
[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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Doctors Men People
It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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Father Married Wonderful
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
People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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Always Knock People Want
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
There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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Eye Promotion Weight

I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.

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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.

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