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 CUMBERBATCHLanding the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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I have actual acting scars.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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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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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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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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What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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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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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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