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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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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Better Get Hard Trying Work
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
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
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
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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Dad Hard Mum
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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Home Opposite Window
The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Film Lessons Strange
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role
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 ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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Drinking Pork Smoking
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Character Doctors Next
I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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Brought Privilege World
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying Want
I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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Character Doctors People
We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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Conversation Hang People
My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
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Book Dad Reading

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