If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI 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.”
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.
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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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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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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.
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Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
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I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
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Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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