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I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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Assange Opinion Wells
Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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Fun Good Fun
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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Come Sadness Thinking Way
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
Any irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
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Fear Irrational Thinking Worry
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
Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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Monday Morning Names
Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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Character Doctors Stories
I have actual acting scars.
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Acting Actual Scar
Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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Reality Sensual Strange
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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Ambition Dream Writing
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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Lovely Overnight Success Years
I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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Character Doctors People
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
[ 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.
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Character Nasty Thinking

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