It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIf you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.
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I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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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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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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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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What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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My 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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People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
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The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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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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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.
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Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping 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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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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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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I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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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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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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