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Benedict Cumberbatch

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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Fall Feet Floating
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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Distance Needs People
I’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.
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Doctors Email Place Strange
[ 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
I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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Exercise Play Spy
We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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Fighting Reality War
I’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
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Character Ice Thinking
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enough Kids Settled
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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Emotional People Response
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying Want
I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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Actors Perception Television Views Well
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Actor Class Looks
You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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Doctors Guy Strange
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
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
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Landing Roles Surprising
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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Book Family Friends Moments Quiet
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Abnormal Appetite Wells
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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Attractive Earth Know
Live a life less ordinary.
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Brain Less Ordinary
It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Cynical Kind Skills
I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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Psychopath Research Sociopath
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Medicine Superpower Thinking

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