You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it’s almost inhuman. So, that’s been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThe awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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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’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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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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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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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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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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Actor 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.
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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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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’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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