I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHLaughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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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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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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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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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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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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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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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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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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It’s always important to have the blessing.
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If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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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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