Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHLaughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHPeople always want to knock you when you’re up.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWe all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHEven in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHAn 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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHBeing someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI 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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMarvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’s always important to have the blessing.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHPeople’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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