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For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Landing Roles Surprising
It’s always important to have the blessing.
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Always Blessing Important
I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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Emotional Sometimes Thinking
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
We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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Brain Gun Guy Hero
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
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
[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
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Certain Degrees Obsessed
I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
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Fighting Girl War
[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
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
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Able Order Running
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
We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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Fighting Reality War
Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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Monday Morning Names

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