My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH[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 think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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I was never geeky about anything.
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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 have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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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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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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I’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.
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It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
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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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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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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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We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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