I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI 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!
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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[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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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
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There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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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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You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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