I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThe further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
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I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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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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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 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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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
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I’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
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I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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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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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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