Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWhen 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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We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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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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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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I’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.
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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 can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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