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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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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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I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
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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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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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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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Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
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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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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 drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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