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 CUMBERBATCHI 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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[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
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It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
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Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.
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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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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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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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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 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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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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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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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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As an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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