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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There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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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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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.
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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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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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There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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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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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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