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 love doing impersonations of people.
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Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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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 quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
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I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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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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We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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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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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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[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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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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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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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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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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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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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
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