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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
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Character Doctor Meals
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
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Character People Play
I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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Character Doctors People
When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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Animal Kind Party
I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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Alternatives Dream Give Up
I love doing impersonations of people.
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Impersonation Love People
I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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Done Drama Periods
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’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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Fire Gadgets Whiskey
Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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Enigma Modern World
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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Book Lovely Support
There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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Coats Given Hats
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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Country Grim Reaper Motorbike
I have actual acting scars.
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Acting Actual Scar

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

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