I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHFame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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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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When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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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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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
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It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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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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Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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I was never geeky about anything.
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