[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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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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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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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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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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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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Live a life less ordinary.
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There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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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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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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