I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHBeing someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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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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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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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 try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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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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I’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].
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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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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
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I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
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I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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