Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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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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I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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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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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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