Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
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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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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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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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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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When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it’s almost inhuman. So, that’s been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.
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I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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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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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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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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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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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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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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