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I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.

Benedict Cumberbatch

What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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Funny Ideas Knowing Things
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Abnormal Appetite Wells
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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Art Daughter Son
I had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
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Holiday Kids Reading
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 struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
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 does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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Glimpse Outside People Realize
I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
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Character Discipline Doctors
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Character Doctors Next
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
We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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Fighting Reality War
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
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Joy Looks Reading
I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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Boys Girlfriend Television

I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.

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I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.

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