Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWhat makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.
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I tell my wife all my secrets.
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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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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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I want to be better at staying connected.
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People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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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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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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