I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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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 was brought up in a world of privilege.
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Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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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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There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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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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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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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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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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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 just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.
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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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