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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].

Benedict Cumberbatch

I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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Bigger Fantastic Thinking
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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Country Grim Reaper Motorbike
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
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
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Class Mean Wealth
For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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Brain Difficult World
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Abnormal Appetite Wells
Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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Angel Mean Thinking
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
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 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
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
The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Film Lessons Strange
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 realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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Careers Realised Trying
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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Goodbye Kissing Years
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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Book Character Thinking
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
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
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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Real School Teaching
Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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Arses Bigs Toned
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff
I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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Done Drama Periods
I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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Fun Important Out Work
Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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Children Kids Only Child

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