I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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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’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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I want to be better at staying connected.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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It’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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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 try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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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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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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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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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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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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I was never geeky about anything.
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