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?
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIf you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
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I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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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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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
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I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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I keep myself amused and others confused
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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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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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I’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.
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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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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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