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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
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Doctor Lesson Thinking
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
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Daily Life Mundane Taken
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Missing Older Want
There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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Doctors Effort Superhero
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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Running Trying Wizardry
Any irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
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Fear Irrational Thinking Worry
[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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Actor Challenges Gymnastics
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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Cactus Friendly Hands
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
It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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Father Married Wonderful
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 keep myself amused and others confused
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Amused Confused Myself Other
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
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

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