I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIf I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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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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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it’s almost inhuman. So, that’s been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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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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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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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’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends 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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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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There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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