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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH[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.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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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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I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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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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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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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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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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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.
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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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The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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