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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH[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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The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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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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I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
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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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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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