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 haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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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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Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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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 tell my wife all my secrets.
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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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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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Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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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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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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[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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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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