I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHEven the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
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I tell my wife all my secrets.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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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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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
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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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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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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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[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
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