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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHEven the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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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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Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
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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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I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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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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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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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 was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
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Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
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There are other people who don’t mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good – real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.
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Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.
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