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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWhen you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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I keep myself amused and others confused
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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I’ve done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].
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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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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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I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
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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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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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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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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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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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I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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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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