New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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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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I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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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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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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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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It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
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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 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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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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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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