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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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Actors Lying Shame
I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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Book Lovely Support
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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Jobs School Silly
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
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enough Kids Settled
I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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Art Daughter Son
My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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Motivation Parent Proud
The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Film Lessons Strange
Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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Children Kids Only Child
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Difficult Learn Lines
I have actual acting scars.
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Acting Actual Scar
I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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Discipline Reading Sports
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
It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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Enjoy People Success Support
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
Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.
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People Successful Years
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Always Giving Personal Twists
Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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Character Identity Strong
People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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Always Knock People Want
If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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Able Abuse Men
It’s always important to have the blessing.
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Always Blessing Important
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 was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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Boys Girlfriend Television
[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
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Character Doctor Meals
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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Enjoy Journey
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

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