If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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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.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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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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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.
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[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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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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When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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I have actual acting scars.
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I don’t want to miss things.
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I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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I want to be better at staying connected.
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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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I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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