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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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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Doctor Saving Selfish
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
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 know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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Determination House Men
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
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
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff
There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.
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Awkward Fun Self
I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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Careers Goal Long
Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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Arses Bigs Toned
An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.
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Doctor Self Thinking
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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Able Actors Opportunity
I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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Character Fun People
If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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Boards Past Trying
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Actor Class Looks
[ 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
As an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
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Actors Fans Stories
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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Careers Realised Trying
[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
The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Film Lessons Strange
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Affection Charming More Persons
People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
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Hands Missing People
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
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Character Doctors Stories
I’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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Hair Short Two Years

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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