I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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 never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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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’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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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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It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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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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There are other people who don’t mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good – real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
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I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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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 wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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