If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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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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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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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’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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I’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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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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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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I had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
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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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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.
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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.
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There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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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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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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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.
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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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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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