Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThe number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.
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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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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 was brought up in a world of privilege.
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I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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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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People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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