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I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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Angel Mean Thinking
I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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Fun Important Out Work
It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
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Running Thinking Yoga
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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Hard Privacy Thing
[ 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
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 think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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Doctors Strange Thinking
I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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Awkward Journey Transition
It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
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Joy Luck Reality
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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Acting Drama School
Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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Magic Miracle Nhs
I have actual acting scars.
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Acting Actual Scar
I was never geeky about anything.
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Anything Greek
I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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Exercise Play Spy
I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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Psychopath Research Sociopath

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