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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHNew York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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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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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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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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I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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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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Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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I was never geeky about anything.
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I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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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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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 want to be better at staying connected.
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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