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There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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Numbers People Soul
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
There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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Eye Promotion Weight
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 can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Alive Book Reading
[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
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Character Doctor Meals
I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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Emotional People Response
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
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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Location Sometimes Want
Live a life less ordinary.
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Brain Less Ordinary
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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About People Stories Talk
Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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Jealous People Sometime
I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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Drinking Pork Smoking
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Adolescence Males School
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

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