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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Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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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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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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My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
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I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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I 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.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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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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There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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I tell my wife all my secrets.
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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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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’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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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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