I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHPull 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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It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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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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There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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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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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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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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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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