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Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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Conscious People Relax Self
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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Academic Actors Doe
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 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
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
You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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Running Trying Wizardry
I’ve done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].
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Doctors Fighting Taken
There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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Doctors Effort Superhero
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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Hard Privacy Thing
I’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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Hair Short Two Years
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 wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
I don’t want to miss things.
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Allow Done Missing Want
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Character Doctors Next
I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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Hipster Poor Ridiculous
It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
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Doctor Lesson Thinking

Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.

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Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.

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