Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHHaving your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThe armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMaybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIf you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI love doing impersonations of people.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWe have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHAs an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHActor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHLanding the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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