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I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.

Benedict Cumberbatch

One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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Assange Opinion Wells
Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
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Actors Kevin Thinking
We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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Medicine Thinking Two
There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.
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Awkward Fun Self
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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Distance Needs People
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Better Fail Failing Get
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Class Mean Wealth
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Disaster Much
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
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
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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Class Talking Winning
Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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Arses Bigs Toned
All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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About People Stories Talk
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
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Humble Mirror Thinking
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

I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.

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