I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWe look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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I don’t want to miss things.
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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.
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Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
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For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.
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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] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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