I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’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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This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he’s dealing with such serious issues.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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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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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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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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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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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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I want to be better at staying connected.
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[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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I think playing any iconic role when you’re stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can’t process that.
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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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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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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
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