Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWhat makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Any irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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You 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 had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
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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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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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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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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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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’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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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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I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
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