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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere 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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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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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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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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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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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
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