The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHConan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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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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Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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I want to be better at staying connected.
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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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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
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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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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 love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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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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I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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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 drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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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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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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