I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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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 love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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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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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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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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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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I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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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?
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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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Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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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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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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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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