If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIf you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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Actor 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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Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
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You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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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 just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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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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