I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMy 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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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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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 had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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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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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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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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As an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
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