There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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’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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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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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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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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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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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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Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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There 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.
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We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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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 am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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