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I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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 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
I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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Alternatives Dream Give Up
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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Home Opposite Window
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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Fall Feet Floating
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
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Fighting Girl War
That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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People Thinking Worry
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.
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Art Daughter Son
[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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Afraid Dark Details
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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Drama Jobs School
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
I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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Ends Excited might
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Disaster Much
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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Dad Hard Mum

I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.

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I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.

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