Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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I want to be better at staying connected.
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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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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
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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.
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There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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I’ve done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].
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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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I have actual acting scars.
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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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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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.
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I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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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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