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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
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.
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/ive-never-been-front-and-centre-as-an-iconic-ameri.jpg)
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/its-one-of-the-things-that-attracted-me-to-the-rol.jpg)
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - [Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/doctor-strange-is-a-really-rich-character-its-an-e.jpg)
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - [Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/scott-derrickson-is-terrific-really-sharp-on-the-d.jpg)
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/youd-have-to-be-pretty-hard-nosed-not-to-feel-some.jpg)
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - [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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/season-4-of-sherlock-holmes-will-be-myopically-dar.jpg)