Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHCumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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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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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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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 never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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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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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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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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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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