That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI 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.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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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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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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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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Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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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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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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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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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’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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Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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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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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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