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[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
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
Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
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Character Doctors Stories
I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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Discipline Reading Sports
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
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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Drama Jobs School
Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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Enigma Modern World
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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Character People Play
If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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Boards Past Trying
I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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Avenue Fifth Traffic Walks
There are other people who don’t mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good – real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.
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People Real Thinking
It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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Glimpse Outside People Realize
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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Book Character Thinking
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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Children Persons Reality
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

[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

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[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

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