I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThe more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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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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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
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It’s always important to have the blessing.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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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 it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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