It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
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The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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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 think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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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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It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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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.
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I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
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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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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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I’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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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
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