If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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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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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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Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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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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We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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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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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 keep myself amused and others confused
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[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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I tell my wife all my secrets.
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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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