This 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 drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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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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I want to be better at staying connected.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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I 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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When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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I 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.
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I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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