When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHAll the backstories are there but not talked about.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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I’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.
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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’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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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’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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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 want to be better at staying connected.
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I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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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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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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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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Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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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’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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