I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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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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I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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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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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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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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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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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 drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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