I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHSomeone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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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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Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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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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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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