Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHOne of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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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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It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
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You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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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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[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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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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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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