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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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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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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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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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I have actual acting scars.
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I don’t want to miss things.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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I’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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