You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHOur 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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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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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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I keep myself amused and others confused
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There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.
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It’s always important to have the blessing.
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Do 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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There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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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 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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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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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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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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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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