Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI was never geeky about anything.
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.
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Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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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 want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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I tell my wife all my secrets.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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I think playing any iconic role when you’re stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can’t process that.
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I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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