Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere’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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I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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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.
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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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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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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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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Sherlock [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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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
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When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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