I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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It’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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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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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. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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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 want to be better at staying connected.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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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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Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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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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Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
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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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