I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’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 have actual acting scars.
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I keep myself amused and others confused
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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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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
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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 think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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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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I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he’s dealing with such serious issues.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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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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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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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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