[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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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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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Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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I’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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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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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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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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I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.
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