You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHDoctors 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.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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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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If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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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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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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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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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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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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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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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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Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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