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

Benedict Cumberbatch

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 don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
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Luxury Mean Privilege
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role
There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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Eye Promotion Weight
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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Real School Teaching
We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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Conversation Hang People
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Disaster Much
I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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Goodbye Kissing Years
The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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Numbers People Soul
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
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Landing Roles Surprising
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
Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.
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People Successful Years
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Class Mean Wealth
The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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Enough World
I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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Determination House Men
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
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
[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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Character Nasty Thinking
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
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enough Kids Settled
I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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Doctors Strange Thinking
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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Enjoy Journey Others Treating
It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Cynical Kind Skills
I tell my wife all my secrets.
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Secret Wife
I love doing impersonations of people.
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Impersonation Love People
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying Want

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

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