black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Doctors Stories
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Doctors Next
All the backstories are there but not talked about.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

About People Stories Talk
Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Magic Miracle Nhs
Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Jealous People Sometime
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Empathy People Thinking
I tell my wife all my secrets.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Secret Wife
I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Done Drama Periods
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Giggle Paid Stills
You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it’s almost inhuman. So, that’s been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Boys Play Practice
You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Able Order Running
It’s always important to have the blessing.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Always Blessing Important
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Expectations Mad People
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctor Mean Role
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Enough Kids Settled
I’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Ice Thinking

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes