I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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.
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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 want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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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 have actual acting scars.
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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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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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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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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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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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There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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