This 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 CUMBERBATCHIt 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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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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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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I have actual acting scars.
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Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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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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Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
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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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For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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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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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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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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Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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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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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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