I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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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Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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I was never geeky about anything.
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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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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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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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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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