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I keep myself amused and others confused

Benedict Cumberbatch

Actor 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 Sometime
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
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
When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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Kids Maturity Stars
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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Academic Actors Doe
I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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Conscious People Relax Self
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enough Kids Settled
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Medicine Superpower Thinking
Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
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Actors Kevin Thinking
Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Difficult Learn Lines
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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Fall Feet Floating
I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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Tea Trying Worry
I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
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Luxury Mean Privilege
I was never geeky about anything.
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Anything Greek
It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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Father Married Wonderful
I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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Assange Opinion Wells

I keep myself amused and others confused

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