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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
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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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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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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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It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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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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The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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It’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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