As an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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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 drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
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I have actual acting scars.
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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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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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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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I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
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For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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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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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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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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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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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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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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