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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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Character Doctors Stories
I have actual acting scars.
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Acting Actual Scar
People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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Always Knock People Want
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
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
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.
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Kings Opposites Real
I’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.
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Doctors Email Place Strange
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Disaster Much
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
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’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
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Character Ice Thinking
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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Expectations Mad People
I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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Bigger Fantastic Thinking
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book Reading
I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
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Fun Regret Teacher
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Missing Older Want

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