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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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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Children Different Parents
[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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Doctors Hell Strange
I had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
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Holiday Kids Reading
I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
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Clothes Joy Late
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
I don’t want to miss things.
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Allow Done Missing Want
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
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying Want
[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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Character Nasty Thinking
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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Coats Given Hats
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 in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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Important Intelligent Thinking
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
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
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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Expectations Mad People

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