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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.

Benedict Cumberbatch

New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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Beautiful Country Crazy
It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
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Doctor Lesson Thinking
I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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Character Doctors Suffering
I keep myself amused and others confused
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Amused Confused Myself Other
Live a life less ordinary.
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Brain Less Ordinary
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Medicine Superpower Thinking
I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
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Costume Feet Party
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
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
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 have actual acting scars.
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Acting Actual Scar
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
I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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Bars Play Real
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
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’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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Psychopath Research Sociopath

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