I had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’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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I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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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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Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
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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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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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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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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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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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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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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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I think playing any iconic role when you’re stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can’t process that.
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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.
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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
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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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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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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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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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