I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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’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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I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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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 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’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
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As an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
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I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
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