The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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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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I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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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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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.
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I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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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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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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I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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I’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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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 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.
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There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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As an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
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