Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
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The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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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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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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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.
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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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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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