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Benedict Cumberbatch

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
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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Children Different Parents
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
Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.
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Ambition Dream Writing
I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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Tea Trying Worry
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Missing Older Want
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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Arses Bigs Toned
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Character Doctors Next
It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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Father Married Wonderful
Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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Enigma Modern World
[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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Doctors Men People
Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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Cry Laughing Musician
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
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
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
[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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Doctors Hell Strange
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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Book Character Thinking
Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Difficult Learn Lines
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book Reading
Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Always Giving Personal Twists
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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Enjoy Journey Others Treating
It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
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Joy Luck Reality
It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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Glimpse Outside People Realize
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

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