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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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Doctors Strange Thinking
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
My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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Motivation Parent Proud
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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Enjoy People Success Support
I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
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Body Done Proportion
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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Acting Drama School
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
Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.
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Award Eye Fun
It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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Doctor Mean Role
Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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Reality Sensual Strange
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.
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Doctor Self Thinking
I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.
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Book Family Friends Moments Quiet
I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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Careers Goal Long
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

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.

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