The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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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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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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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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Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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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’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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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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I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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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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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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As an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
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Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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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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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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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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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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