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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I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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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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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
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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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I’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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