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I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
[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
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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Farce School Theatre
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
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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Class Talking Winning
I keep myself amused and others confused
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Amused Confused Myself Other
I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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Lucky Regret Would
Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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Jealous People Sometime
I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
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Ambassadors Giving Voice
I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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Careers Goal Long
I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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Character Fun People
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Disaster Much
Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.
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Care Crazy Doctor Ideal
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
People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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Always Knock People Want

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