Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHYou have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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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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There’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.
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I have actual acting scars.
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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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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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You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
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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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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
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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.
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There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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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’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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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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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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