I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMaybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThis is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHLanding the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThe biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHSomeone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHAll the backstories are there but not talked about.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI 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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIf you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHSherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI was brought up in a world of privilege.
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