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I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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Bars Play Real
I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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Doctors Strange Thinking
It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
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Doctor Lesson Thinking
I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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Bigger Fantastic Thinking
We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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Conversation Hang People
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
[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
If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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Able Abuse Men
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Abnormal Appetite Wells
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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Actors Theatre Want
We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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Medicine Thinking Two
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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Farce School Theatre
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
I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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Empathy People Thinking
Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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Enigma Modern World

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