Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHConan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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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 tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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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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I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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