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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
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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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I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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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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I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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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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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
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We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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