I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHEven in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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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. 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.
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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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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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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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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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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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I’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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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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