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There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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Hard Privacy Thing
Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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Acting Blood Hate
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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Dad Hard Mum
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Difficult Learn Lines
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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Distance Needs People
[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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Character Nasty Thinking
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
I had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
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Holiday Kids Reading
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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Class Talking Winning
I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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Bigger Fantastic Thinking
I’ve done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].
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Doctors Fighting Taken
I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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Doctors Strange Thinking
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

There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

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There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.

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