All the backstories are there but not talked about.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHEven 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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When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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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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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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It’s always important to have the blessing.
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I keep myself amused and others confused
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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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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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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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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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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 excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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Any irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
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I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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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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Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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I think playing any iconic role when you’re stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can’t process that.
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