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Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
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Costume Feet Party
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
I was never geeky about anything.
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Anything Greek
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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Acting Drama School
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
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
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Character Doctors Next
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Landing Roles Surprising
I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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Fire Gadgets Whiskey
When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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Animal Kind Party
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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Awkward Journey Transition
It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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Father Married Wonderful
Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.
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Award Eye Fun
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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Actors Lying Shame
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
What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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Funny Ideas Knowing Things

Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.

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Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.

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