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?
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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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 have actual acting scars.
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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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[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
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I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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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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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’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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