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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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 have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Abnormal Appetite Wells
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Disaster Much
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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Character Doctors People
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
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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Emotional People Response
Any irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
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Fear Irrational Thinking Worry
The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Film Lessons Strange
Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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Fun Good Fun
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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Butterfly Long Obsessed
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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Location Sometimes Want
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
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
Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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Monday Morning Names

I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

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