I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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.
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I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
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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’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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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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I love doing impersonations of people.
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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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[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
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I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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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 have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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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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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
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