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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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Character Identity Strong
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying Want
I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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Book Reading Source
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
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
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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Grandfather Tanks War
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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Farce School Theatre
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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Hair Knees Policy Sensitive
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
People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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Always Knock People Want
[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
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Certain Degrees Obsessed
When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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Kids Maturity Stars
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Missing Older Want
You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it’s almost inhuman. So, that’s been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.
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Boys Play Practice
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity

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