I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWhen you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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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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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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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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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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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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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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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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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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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’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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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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I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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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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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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The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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