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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

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Dad Hard Mum
It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Joy Luck Reality
We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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Fighting Reality War
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 tell my wife all my secrets.
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Secret Wife
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Kings Opposites Real
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
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
I’ve done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].
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Doctors Fighting Taken
I’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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Hair Short Two Years
I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Art Daughter Son
Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.
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Care Crazy Doctor Ideal
The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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Different Ignore Lesson People
I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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Actors Perception Television Views Well
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
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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Come Sadness Thinking Way

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