I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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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 drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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It’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
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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 able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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