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You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

Benedict Cumberbatch

If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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Boards Past Trying
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Character Doctors Next
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
I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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Exercise Play Spy
I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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Actors Perception Television Views Well
You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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Made Ordinary Want World
We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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Brain Gun Guy Hero
I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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Lovely Overnight Success Years
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
I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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Better Get Hard Trying Work
I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
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Fun Regret Teacher
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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Silly Teacher Voice
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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Butterfly Long Obsessed
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Disaster Much
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
For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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Brain Difficult World

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

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