[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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 have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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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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I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
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I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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I had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
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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 love doing impersonations of people.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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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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Fame 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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Live a life less ordinary.
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