If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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I tell my wife all my secrets.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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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. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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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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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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I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
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I have actual acting scars.
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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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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 had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.
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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 have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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