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I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].

Benedict Cumberbatch

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
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Joy Looks Reading
It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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Enjoy People Success Support
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
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
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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Grandfather Tanks War
I’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
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Character Ice Thinking
Live a life less ordinary.
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Brain Less Ordinary
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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Book Character Thinking
When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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Kids Maturity Stars
People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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Always Knock People Want
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.
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Joy Luck Reality
If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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Able Abuse Men
Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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Cry Laughing Musician
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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Always Giving Help Support Up

I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].

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