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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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Goodbye Kissing Years
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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Dad Hard Mum
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
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
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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Attractive Earth Know
I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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Persons Pregnant
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying Want
The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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Different Ignore Lesson People
I love doing impersonations of people.
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Impersonation Love People
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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Drama Jobs School
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Missing Older Want
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Medicine Superpower Thinking
I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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Cactus Friendly Hands
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
This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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Jealous People Sometimes

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