If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHDo 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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[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
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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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Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
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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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Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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Any irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
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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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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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