I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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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.
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I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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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 haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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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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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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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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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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I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
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I tell my wife all my secrets.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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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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