It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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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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I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
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I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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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 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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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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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 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 was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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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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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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