Actor 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 CUMBERBATCHLanding the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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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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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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I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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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 think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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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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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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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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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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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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