I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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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 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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[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.
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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 had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
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I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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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 always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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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 never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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