Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI was never geeky about anything.
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It’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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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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I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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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.
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I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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