Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.
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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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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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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.
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I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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I don’t want to miss things.
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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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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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I have actual acting scars.
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I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.
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![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - [on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/on-bbcs-sherlock-its-a-rare-challenge-both-for-the.jpg)
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![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - [ 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/stephen-strange-is-less-strange-than-other-charact.jpg)
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![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - [Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/doctor-strange-gets-scraped-off-the-floor-and-then.jpg)