[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
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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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Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. 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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Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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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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Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.
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Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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Any irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
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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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It’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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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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