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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
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 still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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Bump Journey People
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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Country Grim Reaper Motorbike
You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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Made Ordinary Want World
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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Grandfather Tanks War
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book Reading
It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
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Running Thinking Yoga
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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Important Intelligent Thinking
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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Book Character Thinking
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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Silly Teacher Voice
I think playing any iconic role when you’re stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can’t process that.
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People Shoes Thinking
[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
Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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Character Expression Play
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

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