I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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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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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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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. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
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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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We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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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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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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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he’s dealing with such serious issues.
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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 don’t want to miss things.
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