The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIf I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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It’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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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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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
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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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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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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.
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For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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