I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHYou have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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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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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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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.
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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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I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he’s dealing with such serious issues.
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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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