I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHSherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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I have actual acting scars.
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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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It’s always important to have the blessing.
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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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I want to be better at staying connected.
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There are other people who don’t mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good – real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
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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 don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
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I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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