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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHSherlock [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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I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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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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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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