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 CUMBERBATCHEnjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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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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People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
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I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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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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It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.
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It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
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I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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