When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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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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[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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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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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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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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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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I’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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I think playing any iconic role when you’re stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can’t process that.
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