My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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I was never geeky about anything.
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People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
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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 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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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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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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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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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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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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