Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIf 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.
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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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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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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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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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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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I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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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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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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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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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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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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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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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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