[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
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.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I want to be better at staying connected.
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I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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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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We 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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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
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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 did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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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 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.
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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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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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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