I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHBeing a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
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I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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I’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.
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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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[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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