Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
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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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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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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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I tell my wife all my secrets.
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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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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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Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
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Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.
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Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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