I keep myself amused and others confused
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.
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I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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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?
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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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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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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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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If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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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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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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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’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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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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