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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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Fall Feet Floating
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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Challenges Comfort Fun
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Missing Older Want
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
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
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 reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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Book Reading Source
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
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 can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book Reading
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 got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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Home Opposite Window
It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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Enjoy People Success Support
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 drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff
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’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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