[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThe biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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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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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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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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I keep myself amused and others confused
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It’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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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 did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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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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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
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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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